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FREEMASONRY 

IN  PENNSYLVANIA 
1727-1907 

AS  SHOWN   BY  THE   EECOKDS  OF 

LODGE  NO.  2,  F.  AND  A.  M. 

OF  PHILADELPHIA 
FROM  THE  YEAR  A.  L.  5757,  A.  D.  1757 

COMPILED  FROM  ORIGINAL  SOURCES 

BY 

NORRIS  S.  BARRATT 

PAST  MASTER  LODGE  No.  2 

JULIUS   F.  SACHSE 

PAST  MASTER  LODGE  No.  91 

VOLUME  II 

Covering  Period  1781-1813 


PHILADELPHIA 
1909 


Copyright  1909 
By  Geokge  B.  Orlady 


Press  of 

The  new  Era  Printing  Company 

Lancaster.  Pa. 


SRIF 

MS 

OFFICE  OP  THE 

R.  W.  Gkand  Master 

OF  F.  &  A.  Masons  in  Philadelphia 

Masonic  Temple. 

Philadelphia,  November  1,  1909. 
Brethren— 

The  second  volume  of  the  history  of  Lodge  No.  2 
entitled  "Freemasonry  in  Pennsylvania,"  compiled 
from  original  sources  by  Brother  Norris  S.  Barratt, 
Past  Master  of  Lodge  No.  2,  and  Brother  Julius  F. 
Sachse,  Paster  Master  of  Lodge  No.  91,  under  your 
direction  has  been  carefully  examined  by  me,  and  I 
hereby  authorize  its  publication.  I  find  it  accurately 
and  conscientiously  done,  and  if  anything  more  in- 
teresting than  the  first  volume,  which  I  have  already 
said  is  an  invaluable  contribution  to  the  Masonic 
literature  of  this  country.  It  will  prove  a  mine  of 
information  to  the  student  of  American  Freemasonry 
and  the  craft  generally. 

Fraternally  yours, 

George  B.  Orlady, 

Grand  Master. 
To 

P.  M.  NoRRis  S.  Barratt,  Chairman, 

P.  M.  John  Middleton, 

P.  M.  John  K.  McCarthy, 

P.  M.  William  H.  Shoemaker, 

P.  M.  Harry  Anderson, 

Committee  on  Bistort/ 

Lodge  No.  2. 


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PREFACE. 


Volume  I  of  the  History  of  Freemasonry  in  Penn- 
sylvania, compiled  from  the  records  of  Lodge  No.  2, 
brought  us  to  St.  John's  Day,  1781. 

Volume  II  is  from  that  date  to  the  close  of  Decem- 
ber, 1813. 

The  Worshipful  Master  Brother  Lyman  M.  Doerr 
reappointed  P.  M.  Brother  Norris  S.  Barratt,  Chair- 
man, P.  M.  Brother  John  Middleton,  P.  M.  Brother 
John  K.  McCarthy,  P.  M.  Brother  Harry  Anderson 
and  P.  M.  Brother  William  H.  Shoemaker  as  the 
Committee  on  History.  The  Chairman,  P.  M.  Brother 
Norris  S.  Barratt,  and  Brother  Julius  F.  Sachse, 
Litt.D.,  P.  M.  of  Columbia  Lodge,  No.  91,  librarian 
of  the  Grand  Lodge,  continued  as  compilers.  The 
result  of  their  work  is  before  you.  The  Right  Wor- 
shipful Grand  Master,  George  B.  Orlady,  in  author- 
izing its  publication,  is  graciously  pleased  to  observe 
that  it  will  prove  a  mine  of  information  to  the  student 
of  American   Freemasonry  and   the   craft  generally. 

The  City  of  Philadelphia,  as  is  well  known,  up  to 
1800  was  not  only  the  capital  of  the  State  of  Penn- 


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sylvania  but  of  the  nation,  and  many  of  our  brethren 
were  actively  engaged  in  public  affairs,  so  that 
Lodge  No.  2  has  an  intensely  interesting  history 
during  this  period.  This  Masonic  history  related 
with  simplicity  and  directness  from  the  minutes 
eloquent  of  fraternity,  patriotism,  religion  and  liberty, 
we  hope  will  interest  and  instruct  you. 

The  beauty  of  the  principles  of  Freemasonry  ap- 
peal to  all  of  us,  as  they  did  to  our  first  members, 
and  we  know  that  the  practice  of  those  principles 
could  not  fail  to  make  them  better  men  and  better 
citizens.  As  we  review  their  labors  in  an  appreciative 
way,  let  us  also  be  animated  by  their  spirit  of  fra- 
ternity and  give  to  all  of  them,  great  or  humble  as 
they  may  have  been,  the  meed  of  praise  that  is  their 
due  who  in  any  degree  helped  to  maintain  the  tradi- 
tions of  the  craft  and  make  the  history  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

We  commence  with  the  surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis 
at  Yorktown,  Va.,  which  ended  the  British  attempt 
to  conquer  America  and  insured  independence.  The 
English  Ahiman  Eezon  was  not  suited  to  our  needs, 
so  Rev.  Brother  Dr.  William  Smith,  a  member  of 
Lodge  No.  2,  Provost  of  the  College  of  Philadelphia, 
now  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Grand 
Secretary  in  1783,  under  the  direction  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  abridged  and  digested  it  and  dedicated  it  to 
George  Washington,  Esq.,  General  and  Commander- 
in-chief  of   the   armies   of  the   United   States,    as   is 


IPrefacc 

shown  by  the  facsimile  of  title  page  and  dedication 
on  page  7. 

The  most  important  Masonic  event  of  the  year  1783, 
in  addition  to  the  publication  of  the  New  Ahiman 
E-ezon,  was  an  effort  made  to  establish  a  fund  ''For 
the  relief  of  distressed  and  indigent  Free  Masons." 
This  was  the  first  attempt  at  organized  Masonic 
charity  in  the  western  world. 

In  1781  Lodge  No.  2  met  in  Videll's  Alley  on  Second 
Street  below  Chestnut,  then,  in  the  old  Freemason's 
Lodge  in  Lodge  Alley  on  Second  Street  near  Walnut, 
and  after  its  sale  temporarily  in  Joseph  Morris'  build- 
ing in  Black  Horse  Alley  below  Market  Street  east 
of  Second  Street.  All  the  Masonic  bodies  took  part 
in  the  dedication  of  the  Morris  building.  On  the 
first  of  October,  1785,  the  old  Freemasons'  Lodge 
was  sold  at  public  auction,  and  the  proceeds  thereof, 
$1,533.57,  belonging  to  the  survivors  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  who  had  contributed,  were  donated  to  the  City 
of  Philadelphia  ''to  furnish  the  poor  with  fire  wood," 
and  it  will  be  interesting  to  the  brethren  to  learn 
that  it  is  still  held  by  the  Board  of  City  Trusts  and 
has  been  merged  in  the  city  fuel  fund. 

The  close  of  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  and  our 
notice  of  September  25,  1786,  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
England,  of  our  independence,  and  the  formation  of 
the  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons  of  Pennsylvania,  to  which  we  all  owe 


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allegiance;  and  that  we  considered  ourselves  under 
no  ties,  except  those  of  brotherly  love  and  affection, 
to  any  other  Grand  Lodge;  the  mistake  of  Brother 
Solomon  Bush,  who  delivered  the  notice  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Moderns  at  London,  and  their  brotherly 
admonition  to  us  under  the  impression  that  it  came 
from  the  Lodges  that  they  had  warranted  (when  the 
communication  was  intended  for  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Ancient  York  Masons  at  London),  are  interesting 
incidents  now  made  known  to  the  Masonic  world  for 
the  first  tune.  It  is  further  a  noteworthy  fact  that 
the  error  made  by  Brother  Bush  in  delivering  his 
message  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Moderns  in  1788  was 
the  means  of  bringing  about  fraternal  relations  be- 
tween that  body  and  our  own  Grand  Lodge,  and  it 
is  believed  that  this  is  the  only  case  on  record  where 
a  foreign  Grand  Body  was  in  fraternal  communication 
with  both  of  the  English  Grand  Lodges.  As  a  matter 
of  fact  it  was  the  precursor  of  the  ultimate  union  of 
the  two  English  Grand  Lodges  which  was  happily  con- 
summated some  twenty  years  later. 

Among  the  distinguished  members  of  Lodge  No.  2 
in  addition  to  the  roll  of  honor  containing  sixteen 
colonels,  ten  majors  and  twenty-eight  captains  men- 
tioned in  Volume  I,  who  helped  to  obtain  American 
independence,  and  deserve  more  than  a  passing  no- 
tice, are  Col.  Thomas  Proctor,  Joseph  Dean,  Captain 
Allen  McLane,   Col.   Eleazer  Oswald,   Captain   Peter 


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Stephen  Duponceau,  Richard  Wistar  and  Dr.  Caspar 
Wistar,  but  as  copious  notes  of  the  lives  and  achieve- 
ments of  Col.  Proctor,  Joseph  Dean,  Captain  McLane, 
George  A.  Baker  and  Colonel  Oswald  appear  in  the 
text,  it  is  unnecessary  to  repeat  them  here  except  to  add 
to  the  list  Captain  Duponceau,  Richard  Wistar  and  Dr. 
Caspar  Wistar. 

Captain  Peter  S.  Duponceau,  an  eminent  scholar 
and  linguist,  was  a  native  of  France,  born  the  third 
of  June,  1760,  at  St.  Martin  in  the  Isle  of  Rhe.  After 
the  death  of  his  father,  persuaded  by  his  mother  he 
took  up  the  religious  life  at  the  Benedictine  College 
of  St.  Jean  d'Angely  and  he  became  Abbe  Duponceau. 
Although  his  American  friends  never  could  picture 
him  to  themselves  as  an  abbe  with  tonsured  head,  yet 
he  led  this  life  until  1775,  when  he  decided  to  abandon 
it  and  go  to  Paris,  where  he  supported  himself  by 
teaching  English  and  Italian.  Here  he  met  Baron 
Steuben,  became  his  secretary  and  accompanied  him 
to  America  in  1777,  where  he  joined  the  American 
army  with  the  rank  of  captain  and  aid-de-camp.  He 
spent  the  memorable  winter  1777-8  with  the  army  at 
Valley  Forge.  Speaking  of  their  sufferings  he  said: 
''They  bore  their  condition  of  half-naked,  half-fam- 
ished men  with  fortitude,  resignation  and  patience. 
Sometimes  you  might  see  soldiers  pop  their  heads 
out  of  their  huts,  and  call  out  in  an  undertone  'No 
bread— no  soldier, '  but  a  single  word  from  their  officer 


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would  still  their  complaint."  He  remained  in  the 
army  until  1781,  when  he  became  a  citizen  of  Penn- 
sylvania. After  the  Revolution  was  over  he  studied 
law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Philadelphia  Bar.  He 
was  a  great  philologist  and  an  author  of  a  treatise 
upon  the  Chinese  language  and  had  a  distinguished 
reputation  at  home  and  abroad.  He  died  at  his  home, 
northeast  comer  of  Sixth  and  Chestnut  Streets,  April 
1,  1844,  in  his  eighty-fourth  year.  In  his  early  life 
he  had  been  connected  with  the  State  Department  as 
assistant  to  Robert  R.  Livingston,  which  brought  him 
into  contact  with  all  the  early  statesmen  and  Revo- 
lutionary heroes.  In  a  discourse  upon  his  death 
delivered  by  Dr.  Robley  Dunglison  before  the  Amer- 
ican Philosophical  Society  he  quotes  from  a  letter  of 
Duponceau  which  shows  the  life  of  a  Philadelphia 
lawyer  in  early  days: 

In  the  beginning  of  the  present  century,  during  the  reign 
of  the  embargo,  non-intercourse,  and  other  restrictive  measures 
produced  by  the  British  orders  in  council,  and  the  Berlin 
and  Milan  decrees,  a  great  number  of  cases  were  carried  up 
from  this  city  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 
The  counsel  engaged  in  those  causes  were  in  the  habit  of  go- 
ing together  to  Washington  to  argue  their  causes  before  that 
tribunal.  These  were  Mr.  Ingersoll,  Mr.  Dallas,  Mr.  Lewis, 
Mr.  Edward  Tilghman,  Mr.  Rawle  and  myself,  who  am,  alas, 
the  only  survivor  of  that  joyous  band.  We  hired  a  stage  to 
ourselves,  in  which  we  proceeded  by  easy  journeys.  The  court 
sat  then,  in  the  month  of  February;  so  that  we  had  to  travel 


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in  the  depth  of  winter,  through  bad  roads,  in  the  midst  of  rain, 
hail  and  snow,  in  no  very  comfortable  way.  Nevertheless,  as 
soon  as  we  were  out  of  the  city,  and  felt  the  flush  of  air,  we 
were  like  school  boys  in  the  playground  on  a  holiday ;  and  we 
began  to  kill  time  by  all  the  means  that  our  imaginations  could 
suggest.  Flashes  of  wit  shot  their  coruscations  on  all  sides; 
puns  of  the  genuine  Philadelphia  stamp  were  handed  out ;  old 
college  stories  were  revived;  macaroni  Latin  was  spoken  with 
great  purity;  songs  were  sung — even  classical  songs — among 
which  I  recollect  the  famous  Bacchanalian  of  the  Archdeacon 
of  Oxford,  ' '  ]\Iihi  est  propositum  in  taberna  mori " ;  in  short, 
we  might  have  been  taken  for  anything  but  the  grave  counsel- 
lors of  the  celebrated  bar  of  Philadelphia. 

I  shall  always  remember  with  pleasure  those  delightful  jour- 
neys, in  which  we  all  became  intimately  acquainted  with  each 
other;  for  on  such  occasions,  when  free  scope  is  given  to  the 
imagination,  men  appear  in  their  true  characters,  and  no  art 
can  prevent  them  from  showing  themselves  as  they  really  are. 
Our  appearance  at  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  was  always  a 
scene  of  triumph.  We  entered  the  hall  together,  and  Judge 
Bushrod  Washington  was  heard  to  say :  ' '  This  is  my  bar. ' ' 
Our  causes  had  a  preference  over  all  others,  in  consideration 
of  the  distance  w^e  had  to  travel.  The  greatest  liberality  was 
shown  to  us  by  the  members  of  the  profession  who  usually 
attended  that  court.  It  was  really  a  proud  thing,  at  that  time, 
to  be  a  Philadelphia  lawyer. 

On  the  acquisition  of  Louisiana  he  was  offered  the 
Chief  Justiceship  of  the  new  territory  by  President 
Jefferson,  but  declined.  Chief  Justice  James  T.  Mit- 
chell, of  Pennsylvania,  lately  said  of  him: 

It  is  doubtful  if  he  was  not  always  more  of  a  scholar  and 


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philosopher  than  a  lawyer,  but  he  took  great  interest  in  the 
science  of  jurisprudence  and  in  the  brotherhood  of  the  bar 
especially  among  the  younger  men.  He  occupied  a  very  prom- 
inent place  in  the  intellectual  life  of  his  day,  having  been  first 
provost  of  the  Law  Academy,  second  chancellor  of  the  Law 
Association,  president  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society. 

Eichard  Wistar  was  born  in  Pliiladeli)hia  on  the 
twentieth  of  July,  1756.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  In  1790  he  was  in  the  hardware 
business  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Third  and  Market 
Streets.  The  Friends  disowned  Mm  for  his  patriotism 
during  the  Eevolution  and  for  marrying  Sarah  Morris 
out  of  meeting.  His  Masonic  certificate  on  parchment 
in  English,  French  and  Spanish  is  dated  twenty- 
seventh  of  August,  1779,  and  signed  by  Brother  John 
Wood  of  Lodge  No.  2,  Grand  Secretary.  It  is  re- 
lated of  him  that  he  always  carried  with  him  his 
Masonic  certificate  tied  up  in  a  silken  bag  when  he 
traveled  by  sea  or  land.  How  great  a  patriot  he 
was  is  best  illustrated  by  his  letter  of  June  11,  1783, 
as  Worshipful  Master  of  Lodge  No.  2,  on  page  44, 
to  the  Eight  Worshipful  Grand  Master  asking  for  a 
dispensation  to  initiate  three  Eevolutionary  colonels. 
He  was  also  noted  for  his  generosity,  and  on  April 
11,  1785,  he  contributed  £2  5s.  to  Lodge  No.  2  for 
building  a  house  for  the  Grand  Lodge.  He  resigned 
in  1791  to  form  with  some  others  Lodge  No.  51,  and 


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was  the  Worshipful  Master  mentioned  in  the  warrant. 
He  died  in  1821. 

Dr.  Caspar  Wistar,  one  of  Philadelphia's  most  dis- 
tinguished physicians,  the  brother  of  Richard,  was 
born  on  the  thirteenth  of  September,  1761.  He  studied 
medicine  under  Dr.  John  Redman,  who  was  also  a 
member  of  Lodge  No.  2,  and  in  1782  he  was  given 
the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine  by  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania.  He  then  continued  his  medical 
studies  in  London  and  Edinburgh.  In  1787  he  was 
physician  to  the  Philadelphia  Dispensary  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  the  American 
Philosophical  Society.  He  rendered  most  efficient 
service  during  the  yellow  fever  epidemic  of  1793  and 
contracted  that  disease  himself,  but  fortunately  recov- 
ered. In  1792  he  was  assistant  professor  of  anatomy  in 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and  subsequently  was 
professor  of  that  branch  from  1808  to  1818.  He  was 
the  founder  of  the  Wistar  Museum  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  36th  and  Woodland  Avenue.  An- 
atomy was  his  forte,  but  he  was  well  versed  in 
chemistry,  botany,  mineralogy  and  history  in  all  its 
branches.  It  was  his  custom  to.  gather  around  him 
weekly  at  his  house  many  of  the  men  of  learning  in 
Philadelphia  or  from  foreign  parts,  and  this  is  the 
origin  of  our  present  Wistar  Party  which  is  called 
after  him.  He  died  on  the  fourteenth  of  January, 
1818. 


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The  leading  part  taken  by  Lodge  No.  2  in  early 
Freemasonry  is  readily  understood  when  we  recall 
who  these  men  were  and  their  high  social  and  pro- 
fessional standing  in  Philadelphia. 

The  first  American  flag  displayed  on  the  Thames 
at  London  after  the  peace  of  1783  was  on  the  ship 
'' William  Penn,"  commanded  by  Captain  James 
Josiah,  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  2,  and  who  com- 
manded the  sloop  "Le  Gerard"  assisting  the  brig 
*' Convention, "  Captain  Houston,  in  the  capture  of 
the  sloop  "Active,"  which  resulted  in  the  memorable 
contest  between  the  state  and  the  nation. 

Brother  Lafayette  stopped  in  Philadelphia,  August 
9,  1784,  on  his  way  to  Mt.  Vernon  to  visit  Brother 
George  Washington  and  present  him  with  the  Masonic 
apron  now  in  the  Grand  Lodge  library,  and  it  was 
then  that  Brother  John  Parke  of  Lodge  No.  2  in 
honor  of  his  ]3resence  composed  and  published  the 
ode  greeting  Brother  Lafayette. 

In  1785  the  Sublime  Lodge  of  Perfection  was  con- 
secrated, and  Brother  Joseph  Dean,  a  member  of 
Lodge  No.  2,  and  later  Senior  Grand  Warden,  pre- 
sented to  the  Grand  Lodge  a  lot  of  ground  southwest 
corner  Twelfth  and  Walnut  streets  upon  which  to 
build  a  Grand  Lodge  house.  It  was  considered  at 
that  time  too  far  out  in  the  country  for  the  purpose, 
and  it  was  therefore  on  February  23,  1809,  unfortu- 
nately sold  for  $2,000. 


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Rev.  Samuel  Magaw,  Vice  Provost  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania,  a  member  of  the  craft, 
delivered  a  sermon  for  the  benefit  of  the  poor  at 
St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  Saturday,  December 
27,  1783,  dedicated  to  the  Chevalier  de  Luzerne,  min- 
ister to  the  United  States  from  the  Court  of  France, 
as  shown  by  facsimile. 

The  next  event  was  a  sermon  on  the  character  of 
the  Evangelist  St.  John  preached  December  27,  1784, 
before  the  Grand  Lodge  at  Christ  Church  by  the 
Rev.  William  White,  Chaplain  to  Congress,  1781- 
1801,  rector  of  Christ  Church  and  St.  Peter's,  who 
upon  the  organization  of  the  American  Episcopal 
Church  became  the  first  Bishop.  His  consecration 
took  place  at  Lambeth  Palace,  London,  England,  on 
February  4,  1787. 

The  year  1793  is  memorable  because  of  the  epidemic 
of  yellow  fever  and  the  attempts  of  the  French  emigres 
to  destroy  our  faith  in  our  Supreme  Master,  the  great 
architect  of  the  universe,  and  our  new  government, 
going  so  far  as  to  attempt  to  impeach  President 
Washington.  As  is  well  known,  their  efforts  failed 
and  the  failure  was  contributed  to  in  no  slight  degree 
by  the  craft,  who  performed  the  duty  which  Masons 
ought  always  to  inculcate,  viz.:  to  God,  our  neighbor 
and  ourselves.  The  conspicuous  leaders  who  stood 
for  law,  order  and  religion  were  President  Washing- 
ton, Bishop  William  White  and  Pastor  Helmuth  of 
the  Lutheran  Church. 


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On  December  27,  1793,  St.  John's  Day,  the  Grand 
Lodge  attended  Divine  service  at  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Church,  and  the  Masonic  prayer  delivered  by  Rev. 
Samuel  Magaw,  D.D.,  the  rector,  was  considered  of 
such  importance  that  it  was  published  in  pamphlet 
form.  The  facsimile  of  the  service,  prayer  and  dedi- 
cation are  reproduced. 

St.  John's  Day,  June  24,  1795,  was  observed  by  a 
public  procession  from  the  Grand  Lodge,  Fifth  and 
Arch  Streets,  to  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church,  Second 
and  Pine  Streets,  where  a  sermon  was  delivered  by 
Rev.  Brother  Dr.  William  Smith,  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

Our  illustrious  brother,  General  George  Washing- 
ton, having  died.  Brother  George  A.  Baker,  Grand 
Secretary,  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  2,  on  December 
23,  1799,  notified  the  brethren  to  meet  in  consequence 
of  an  invitation  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements 
of  Congress  to  attend  the  funeral  oration  in  honor  of 
the  late  Lieutenant  General  George  Washington  as 
directed  by  Congress.  The  Grand  Lodge  decided  to 
join  in  the  honor  about  to  be  shown  to  the  memory 
of  our  illustrious  deceased  brother,  and  the  brethren 
then  formed  in  due  order  in  the  Grand  Lodge  Room, 
and  mo^dng  from  thence  joined  in  the  general  proces- 
sion, which  formed  in  the  middle  of  Chestnut  Street, 
right  on  Sixth.  The  route  was  down  Fifth  to  Walnut 
Street,  down  Walnut  to  Fourth  and  up  Fourth  to 
Zion  German  Lutheran  Church.     A  bier  covered  with 


preface 

a  pall  was  carried  in  the  procession  by  six  sergeants 
and  was  deposited  in  front  of  the  altar  beneath  the 
pulpit.  An  anthem,  monody  and  dirge  composed  for 
the  occasion  was  sung  by  a  choir,  the  leading  voices 
in  which  were  artists  from  the  theatre  in  Chestnut 
Street,  the  original  music  of  which  is  now  in  the 
Library  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania.  The 
funeral  service  was  pronounced  by  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Bishop  William  White,  after  which  General  Henry 
Lee,  of  Virginia,  delivered  the  address  in  accordance 
with  the  resolution  of  Congress,  wherein  Brother 
Washington  was  characterized  as  being  ''First  in 
war,  first  in  peace,  and  first  in  the  hearts  of  his 
countrymen,"  which  being  ended,  the  Masonic  proces- 
sion returned  to  the  Grand  Lodge  room. 

On  January  1,  1800,  the  French  Lodge  L'Amenite, 
No.  73,  of  the  Pennsylvania  jurisdiction,  held  a  Public 
Lodge  of  Sorrow,  upon  which  occasion  an  oration  in 
French  on  Brother  George  Washington  was  delivered 
by  Brother  Simon  Chaudron.  The  facsimile  of  the 
title  page  of  this  oration  is  reproduced  in  both  French 
and  English.  Subsequently  on  Washington's  birth- 
day, twenty-second  day  of  February,  1800,  the  Grand 
Lodge  listened  to  an  oration  commemorative  of  the 
virtues  and  greatness  of  General  Washington  by  Rev. 
Brother  Samuel  Magaw,  D.D.,  at  the  German  Luth- 
eran Church,  Philadelphia,  the  title  page  of  which  is 
also  reproduced. 


1730— ifreemasonr]?  in  ipenns^lvanta— 1907 

The  anniversary  of  St.  John's  Day  was  observed 
on  Monday,  the  twenty-fourth  of  June,  1811,  at  St. 
John's  Lutheran  Church,  on  the  south  side  of  Eace 
Street,  below  Sixth  Street,  by  an  oration  on  Masonry 
by  the  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Master  James  Milnor 
and  the  singing  of  two  Masonic  hymns  specially  com- 
posed for  the  occasion,  one  by  Brother  Robert  Taylor 
and  the  other  by  Brother  Joseph  Clay,  Past  Master 
of  Lodge  No.  3.  The  craft  then  proceeded  to  the 
Chestnut  Street  hall,  then  just  completed,  where  the 
ceremony  of  formal  dedication  took  place,  followed 
by  a  banquet  attended  by  the  Grand  Officers  of  New 
Jersey  and  Maryland  and  other  respectable  visitors 
and  brethren,  two  hundred  in  number. 

The  records  show  and  the  craft  in  reading  this 
book  cannot  fail  to  be  impressed  with  the  fact  that 
our  ancient  brethren  dispensed  charity  with  a  liberal 
hand  according  to  their  means  to  those  entitled  to  it. 
Like  the  Psalmist,  we  have  considered  the  days  of 
old  and  the  years  that  are  past  and  have  set  forth  the 
life  and  achievements  of  Lodge  No.  2  as  it  is  recorded. 
It  is  a  Masonic  record  to  be  proud  of,  and  in  saying 
it  we  recall  Lord  Macauley's  words  that  "A  people 
which  takes  no  pride  in  the  noble  achievements  of 
remote  ancestors  will  never  achieve  anything  worthy 
to  be  remembered  with  pride  by  remote  descendants." 
If  this  history  shall  serve  to  make  the  craft  more 
proud  of  our  Masonic  forefathers  who  practiced  out 


preface 


of  the  Locige  those  pure  principles  of  fraternity  and 
morality  they  were  taught  within  it,  our  end  will  be 
attained. 

We  cannot  let  this  opportunity  pass  without  ex- 
pressing our  obligations  and  thanks  to  Eight  Wor- 
shipful Grand  Master  Brother  Louis  C.  Massey,  of 
Florida,  Brother  Daniel  W.  Nead,  P.  M.,  of  Colonial 
Lodge  No.  631,  for  preparing  index  of  subjects  and 
names.  Also  Honorable  William  White  Wiltbank  and 
Honorable  John  M.  Scott,  for  their  courtesy  and  as- 
sistance. 


Past  Master  of  Lodge  No.  2, 

Chairman, 


-X      ^ 


LliliU    O'   ^CLC^h>e^ 


Fast  Master  of  Columbia  Lodge  No.  91, 

Librarian, 
Compilers. 


November  1,  1909. 


CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER   XIV. 
Under  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  1781-1783  ...        1 

CHAPTER    XV. 
The  Dawn  of  Peace  and  Prosperity,  1784-1785  ...      51 

CHAPTER   XVI. 

The  Close  of  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  1786    .     .     103 

CHAPTER    XVII. 
Under  the  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Penn- 
sylvania, 1787-1792 132 

CHAPTER   XVIII. 

The  Close  of  the  Eighteenth  Century,  1793-1799    .    181 

CHAPTER   XIX. 
Independence  Hall,  1800-1802 257 

CHAPTER   XX. 
Pennsylvania  Freemason's  Hall,  1803-1811  ....    294 

CHAPTER   XXL 
The  New  Masonic  Hall,  Chestnut  Street,  1811-1819.    398 

INDEX. 

Subjects 444 

Names       458 

xxi 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


PLATES 

Independence  Hall  (Chromotype) frontispiece 

Masons  Arms,   Edition  1783 facing  page      4 

Portrait  Peter  S.  Duponceau "  "        20 

Portrait  Kichard  Wistar "  "        33 

Portrait  Dr.  Caspar  Wistar "  "        40 

Washington's  Masonic  Apron "  "        53 

Portrait  Joseph  Dean "  "        56 

St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia "  "        67 

Portrait  Rev.  William  White,  D.D "  "        80 

Portrait  Col.  Allen  McLanei "  "109 

Portrait  Rev.  Joseph  Pilmore "  "      116 

Title  Page  Magaw's  Prayer,  1786 "  "130 

Meeting  House  of  the  Free  Quakers  (Chromo- 
type)       "  "168 

Bro.  George  Washington    (Contemporary  Por- 
trait)      \     .     .  "  "225 

Portrait  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  William  White  .     .  u  u      256 

Washington  Funeral  Procession "  "      265 

ZiON  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church  ....  "  "      270 

Portrait  George  A.  Baker "  "      273 

Freemasons^  Hall,  Filbert  St.   (Chromotype).  "  "      294 

Portrait  Norris  Stanley "  "      358 

Bill  of  Lading,  Bro.  Adam  Dickey "  "      362 

Masonic  Hall,  Chestnut  St.  (Chromotype)  .     .  «  "      398 

St.  John's  Lutheran  Church,  Interior  ...  "  "      402 

Oration  James  ^lnor,  1811,  Title  Page  ...  "  "      407 


miustrations 


ILLUSTRATIONS  AND  FACSIMILES  IN  TEXT 

The  Allseeing  Eye page  1 

Washington  Arms "  4 

Ahiman  Rezon,  1783,  Title  Page "  7 

Ahiman  Eezon,  1783,  Endorsement "  8 

Ahiman  Rezon,  1783,  Dedication "  9 

Ahiman  Rezon,  1783,  Bill  for "  10 

Vignette "  50 

Autograph  von  Worn "  64 

Magaw  Sermon,  1783,  Title  Page "  67 

Magaw  Sermon,  1783,  Dedication "  68 

White  Sermon,  1784,  Title  Page "  80 

Specimen  Penmanship "  82 

Allan  McLane's  Application "  111 

PiLMORE  Sermon,  1786,  Title  Page "  114 

Pilmore  Sermon,  1786,  Dedication "  115 

Autograph  George  Wescott "  116 

Magaw  Prayer,  1786,  Title  Page        "  130 

Magaw  Prayer,  1786,  Endorsement "  131 

JVIagaw  Sermon,  1793,  Title  Page "196 

Magaw  Sermon,  1793,  Dedication "  197 

Grand  Lodge  Notice,  1797       "230 

Grand  Lodge  Notice,  1799       "  254 

Oraison  Funebre,  Chaudron,  1800,  Title "  260 

Funeral  Oration,  Chaudron,  1800,  Title "  261 

Notice  of  Memorial  Service,  1800 "  263 

Order  of  Procession,  February  22,  1800 "  265 

Magaw  Oration,  February  22,  1800,  Title "269 

Phillips'  Pocket  Companion,  1805,  Title  Page  ...  "  395 

MiLNOR  Oration  on  Masonry,  1811,  Title  Page  ...  "  406 


M^ 


Freemasonry  in  Pennsylvania 

1730  —  1907 

0 
CHAPTER   XIV. 

Under  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge. 

UR  second  volume  of  the  History  of 
''Freemasonry  in  Pennsylvania"  as 
shown  by  the  Records  of  the  Provincial 
Grand  Lodge,  together  with  those  of 
Lodge  No.  2  and  contemporary  sister 
Lodges,  begins  with  a  transcript  of  the 
third  minute  book  of  the  venerable  Lodge  No.  2,  and 
covers  the  period  from  1782  to  June  16,  1787.  Un- 
fortunately there  is  no  date  to  the  first  entry  in  the 
old  leather-bound  tome.  The  transactions  here  re- 
corded are  undoubtedly  the  ones  alluded  to  "as  being 
transcribed  into  a  new  book,"  on  page  440  of  the 
previous  volume. 

The  first  regular  entry  for  the  year  1782  appears 
to  be  of  the  Lodge  held  Wednesday,  January  9,  1782. 
With  the  advent  of  the  new  year  the  political  condi- 
tions of  the  country  assumed  a  more  normal  shape. 
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1730— Jfreemasonr^  in  ipenns^lvanla  — 1907 

The  surrender  of  Cornwallis  in  the  previous  October, 
had  virtually  ended  the  British  attempt  to  conquer 
America.  Peace  and  independence  now  seemed 
assured.  The  financial  skies  also  commenced  to 
brighten,  and  our  Fraternity  entered  upon  an  era  of 
activity  which  extended  to  both  our  own  Grand 
Lodge  and  the  subordinate  lodges  at  home  and  in 
the  several  states  owing  Masonic  fealty  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  question  of  a  General  Grand  Master  for  the 
American  Colonies  having  been  eliminated  by  the 
adverse  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts, 
as  set  forth  in  Chapter  XIL  of  our  initial  volume,  the 
chief  event  of  Masonic  import  now  was  the  compila- 
tion of  an  abridgment  of  the  English  Ahiman  Rezon 
or  Book  of  Constitutions,  suitable  for  modern  needs, 
under  the  changed  condition  of  affairs,  both  political 
and  social.  This  important  matter  was  under  con- 
sideration since  the  year  1779,  when  at  the  Grand 
Communication  held  on  December  20. 

A  motion  was  made  and  seconded  that  a  new  Edition  of 
the  Book  of  Constitution  be  prepared  for  the  press,  and  the 
Deputy  Grand  Master  [Bro.  John  Coats],  the  Grand  Sec'y 
[Rev.  Bro.  William  Smith],  Br.  Young  Treasurer  of  No.  2, 
Br.  Bernard  of  No.  3,  Br.  Whitehead  of  No.  4,  and  Br. 
Leaming  of  No.  13,  were  appointed  a  Committe  to  revise 
and  Prepare  the  Constitution  for  the  press,  and  lay  it  be- 
fore the  next  Quarterly  Communication,  leaving  out  what 
may  be  superfluous. 

2 


"innDer  tbc  provincial  (5ran^  XoDge 

This  important  task  was  assigned  by  the  Com- 
mittee to  Rev.  Brother  William  Smith,  D.D.,  who 
was  perhaps  the  most  learned  scholar  in  the  state 
and  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  2,  and  at  the  same  time 
Grand  Secretary  of  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge. 
How  well  and  satisfactorily  the  Reverend  Brother 
completed  this  revision,  which  was  really  a  labor  of 
love,  is  shown  by  the  minutes  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 

viz. : 

November  22,  1781. 
Grand  Lodge  of  Emergency. 

The  Right  Worshipful,  William  Ball,  Esq.,  Grand  Master. 

The  Grand  Secretary  opened  the  Business  of  the  evening 
by  informing  that  the  Lodge  was  call'd  together  in  Order 
to  give  their  Sanction  to  the  New  Book  of  Constitutions,  as 
order 'd  to  be  revised  and  published  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Brethren  in  America, — whereupon  the  Manuscript  was  or- 
der'd  to  be  read. 

The  Book  of  Constitutions  being  read,  the  same  was 
unanimously  approved  of  and  Order 'd  to  be  printed. 

Resolv'd,  That  the  Mason's  Arms  be  engraved  as  a 
frontispiece  for  the  book,  and  in  case  our  beloved  and  Illus- 
trious Brother  General  Washington  permit  it  to  be  dedicated 
to  him,  that  his  Excellency's  Arms  be  engraved  and  prefixed 
to  the  Dedication. 

The  Thanks  of  the  Grand  Lodge  were  Unanimously  ordered 
to  be  given  to  the  Grand  Secretary,  for  the  care  and  attention 
with  w^hich  he  has  revised  and  abridged  the  Constitution 
Book. 

The  patriotic  spirit  of  our  forbears  shines  out 
prominently  in  this   effort  to  honor   General  Wash- 

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1730— iTreemasonr^  in  Pennsylvania  — 1907 

ington.  The  only  regret  is  that  the  resolution  to 
insert  the  Washington  arms  in  front  of  the  Dedica- 
tion was  not  carried  into  effect. 

The  special  frontispiece  of  the  "Mason's  Arms"  was 
engraved  by  Brother  Robert  Scot.^     This  represented 


Arms  of  Brother  George  Washington. 

Proposed  as  a  prefix  to  the  dedication  of  the  Aliiman  Eezon, 

but  evidently  not  sanctioned  by  him. 

the  arms  of  the  most  ''Ancient  and  Honorable  Fra- 
ternity of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons"  together  with 
the  "Arms  of  the  Operative  or  Stone  Mason's"  Guild. 
An  edition  of  two  thousand  were  printed  by  Kinnan  & 
Leacock,  for  which  they  received  the  sum  of  £  14—4—0 
as  per  minutes  of  March  29,  1784. 

^  Robert  Scot,  b.  England.     This  appears  to  have  been  his  earliest 
work  in  this  country.      He  was  later  Engraver  to  the  Mint. 

4 


JPrinled,  By  Kinnan  Sljeacoc/e 


FRONTISPIECE    OF    THE    AHIMAN     REZON,    PENNSYLVANIA,    1783. 
ORIGINAL  PLATE  IN  MUSEUM  OF  THE  GRAND  LODGE  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 


"UnDer  tbc  provincial  (BranD  XoDqc 


The  original  engraved  plate  of  this  frontispiece 
is  now  on  exhibition,  together  with  an  original  im- 
pression by  Kinnan  &  Leacock,  in  the  Museum  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  Library  in  the  Masonic  Temple  in 
Philadelphia. 

Shortly  after  the  motion  was  adopted  to  prepare 
the  New  American  Ahiman  Rezon  a  committee  was 
appointed  to  enquire  as  to  how  many  copies  of  the 
new  constitutions  would  be  taken  by  the  various 
subordinate  Lodges.  The  report  was  made  at  the 
Grand  Communication,  December  18,  1780,  in  which 
Lodge  No.  2  heads  the  list  with  the  report  ' '  that  they 
will  take  two  hundred  Copies  of  the  Constitution 
Books."  Arrangements  were  also  made  for  the  print- 
ing of  the  proposed  book.  For  this  purpose,  at  the 
March  Communication  in  1781,  it  was  "Ordered  that 
twenty  pounds  specie,  or  the  exchange,  be  advanced 
to  Brother  Sellers  to  procure  paper  for  printing  the 
Constitution  Books." 

As  a  further  matter  of  interest  we  may  recall  the 
fact  that  Brother  William  Sellers  was  the  surviving 
partner  of  the  old  firm  of  Hall  &  Sellers,  whose 
senior  member  during  his  lifetime  was  so  active  a 
member  in  both  the  Grand  Lodge  and  of  Lodge  No.  2. 
On  account  of  the  financial  troubles  of  that  day, 
continental  scrip  having  fallen  almost  to  zero,  the 
publication  suffered  delay. 

At  the  Grand  Communication,  December  23,  1782, 
it  was  ordered, 

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X730— ifreemaeonr^  in  Pennsylvania  —  X907 

That  the  Sermon  and  Prayer,  as  delivered  by  Brother 
Smith,  Grand  Sec'y,  some  time  since,  be  printed  in  the  Book 
of  Constitutions,  and  that  the  Dy.  Gd.  Sec'y  be  ordered  to 
present  the  thanks  of  this  Grand  Lodge  to  Bro.  Smith  for 
his  care,  attention,  etc.,  in  forming  the  same,  which  thanks 
are  to  be  inserted  in  the  said  Book  of  Constitutions. 

Agreeable  to  the  above  order  Bro.  Joseph  Howell, 
Jr.,  Deputy  Grand  Secretary,  sent  an  extract  from 
the  minutes  to  the  printer  for  insertion  in  the  book. 

It  was  not  until  St.  John's  day,  June  24,  1783,  that 
the  New  Ahiman  Rezon  was  ready  for  delivery. 
Upon  the  Quarterly  Communication  on  that  day  Bros. 
Rutherford,  Proctor  and  Jennings  were  appointed  a 
committee  to  issue  a  circular  letter  and  send  it  to 
the  several  Lodges  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  informing  them  of  the  Book  of  Con- 
stitutions being  ready  for  delivery,  requesting  to 
know  what  number  each  Lodge  will  take. 

On  motion  it  was  also  agreed: 

That  Brother  Sellers  and  Woodhouse  shall  have  the 
Privilege  of  disposing  of  the  Books  of  Constitutions  to  those 
Brethren  who  may  want  the  same  at  the  rate  of  5/p.  each 
Book  p.  Dozen  and  7/6  for  each  single  one,  until  next  St. 
John's  Day  when  this  Gr.  Lodge  agrees  to  receive  and  pay 
for  those  which  may  be  left  on  hand.  Brother  Sellers  in- 
formed that  2000  books  be  printed,  1000  of  which  were  or- 
dered to  be  bound  neatly. 

At  an  Emergency  Lodge  held  July  12,  1783,  it  was 
ordered, 

6 


lunger  the  provincial  (Brant)  %o^qc 

AHIMAN  REZON 

•  ABRIDGED    AND    DIGESTED  : 
ASA 

Helf  to  all  that  are,   or  would  Be 

Free  and  Accepted  MASONS. 

TO   WHICH  IS   ADDED, 

A     SERMON, 

Preached  in  CHRIST-CHURCH,    Philadelphia, 

At  a  General  Communication, 

Celebrated,  agreeable  to  the  Constitutions)  otr 

Monday,  December  28,  1778,  as  the  Anmiver- 

SARY  OF  St.  JOHN  the  £vangelist. 

published  by  ORDER  OF 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania, 

By    WILLIAM    SMITH,    D.  D. 

PHILADELPHIA: 
Printed   bv    HALL   and    S£LL£RS* 


M^DCe^LXXXIlJ. 

Title  Page  of  Ahiman  Eezon. 
7 


1730— ifreemaeonri?  in  ipennsiPlvanta— 1907 


Grand  Lodge  of  Pennjylvania^ 

November  22,   1781. 

fT'HE  Abridgement  of  the  Book  of 
Constitutions  being  read,  the 
fame  was  unanimoujly  approved  of  and  ordered 
to  be  printed^  and  alfo,  that  the  Thanks  of 
this  Grand  Lodge  be  given  to  our  beloved 
Brother^  the  Reverend  William  Smith, 
D.  D.  Grand  Secretary,  for  the  great  Care 
end  Attention  he  has  bejlowed  in  revifing  and 
abridging  the  f aid  Book  of  Constitutions, 

Extract  from  the  Minutes, 

Joseph  Howell,  jun.  D.  G.  ^ecry, 

Endoesement  of  Grand  Lodge. 


IHn^er  tbe  provincial  (5ran^  Xot)ge 

TO  HIS  EXCSLLENCY 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  Esq- 

GENERAL  AND  COMMANDER  IN  CHIEF 
OP   THE 

Armies  of  the  United  States 

O    F 

AMERICA: 

TTN  Teftimonyt  as  well  of  his  exalted  Scr- 
"^  vices  to  his  Country,  as  of  that  noble 
Philanthropy  which  diilinguifhes  Him 
among  Masons,  the  following  Consti- 
tutions of  the  mofl  ancient  and  honorable 
Fraternity  of  Free  and  Accepted  Mafons,  by 
Order  and  in  Behalf  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennjylvania,  &c.  is  dedicated. 

By  his  Excellency's 

Mofl  humble  Servants 
And  fcdthful  Brother, 

William  Smith,  G.  Secretary, 

7««f  24,  1782. 

Dedication  of  Ahiman  Eezon. 
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10 


1Iln&er  tbe  provinctal  (Brant)  %o^qc 

That  three  dozen  Books  of  the  Constitutions  be  presented 
to  our  worthy  Brother,  the  Eev'd  Doc'r  Smith,  for  the  great 
care  and  attention  which  he  has  paid  in  revising  the  same — 
as  also  a  Letter  expressing  the  thanks  of  this  G^  Lodge  to 
him. 

During  the  years  1782  and  1783  political  contro- 
versy continued  to  run  high,  and  was  marked  by 
personal  disputes,  in  which  Brother  Thomas  Proctor 
and  Eleazer  Oswald  were  prominent  factors,  without, 
however,  affecting  our  Fraternity. 

The  most  important  Masonic  event  of  the  year  1783, 
in  addition  to  the  publication  of  the  New  Ahiman 
Kezon,  was  an  effort  made  to  establish  a  fund  ^'For 
the  relief  of  distressed  and  indigent  Free  Masons.' ' 
This  was  the  first  attempt  at  organized  Masonic 
charity  in  the  western  world. 

This  matter  was  considered  in  open  Lodge  on  the 
fifteenth  of  March,  just  two  days  after  the  news  had 
reached  Philadelphia  of  the  signing  of  a  preliminary 
treaty  of  peace  with  England,  and  was  brought  to 
America  by  the  Packet  ''General  Washington," 
which  reached  Philadelphia  on  the  twelfth  of  March, 
1783. 

Beginning  of  Third  Minute  Book  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

Transactions. — An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  con- 
formable to  the  Dispensation  mentioned  in  the  Trans- 
actions of  the  preceeding  Lodge  night— Ezekiel  Bowen, 
Eichard  MacGuffin,  William  Tinsley,  Tristram  Moore, 
and  Thomas  Speer   (Clandestine  Masons)   were  bal- 

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1730— ifreemasonr^  in  ipennsi^lvania— 1907 

loted  for,  to  be  initiated  into  the  sacred  mysteries  of 
the  ancient  Craft,  and  unanimously  approved,  as 
worthy- 
Brother  Hoopes  of  Lodge  No  14,  who  petitioned  to 
be  admitted  a  member  of  this  Lodge  was  proved 
worthy  by  sufferage,  and  accordingly  admitted. 

The  petition  of  Mess  Moffit  and  Shutwell,  praying 
for  admission  into  the  fellowship  and  fraternity  of 
the  ancient  Masons,  were  read  and  ordered  to  ly  on 
the  Books,  conformable  to  the  Bye-Laws. 

The  petition  of  Bro.  Grrayson  praying  of  the  Lodge 
to  be  indulged  with  the  same  exalted  Honor,  was  also 
read,  and  ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books. 

Bros.  Bowen  and  MacGuffin  were  now  admitted  to 
Masonic  fellowship  by  being  solemnly  initiated  into 
the  Mysteries  of  the  First  degree  of  our  order 

Bros  Wister,  Farril  and  Hoopes  were  appointed  a 
Committe  on  the  petition  of  Mess.  Moffet— Shutwell 
and  Grayson 

Bro  E.  Jones  of  Lodge  No  4,  exhibited  to  the  Lodge 
a  Complaint  against  Bro.  W""  Bradford,  on  the  subject 
of  a  contract  respecting  Pork.— Bro.  Bradford  being 
then  absent,  Bros  Proctor  and  Fallon  were  appointed 
to  communicate  to  him,  that  such  complaint  hath  been 
instituted. 

On  Motion  made  by  Bro  Proctor,  seconded  by  Bro 
Rutherford,  that  (in  lieu  of  all  past  arrearages)  the 
sum  of  Fifteen  pounds  be  paid  by  this,  to  the  Grand 
Lodge,  so  soon  as  our  Lodge  funds  will  conveniently 

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IDlnDcr  tbe  provincial  (BranD  %o^qc 

admit  of  such  deduction— Whereupon  the  question 
was  put  from  the  Chair,  to  be  decided  on  by  the  Hold- 
ing up  of  Hands;  when  it  was  carried  in  the  affirma- 
tive by  a  Majority. 

It  was  then  moved  from  the  Chair  at  the  Requisi- 
tion of  Mr  Jno  MacPherson,^  that  on  Vacation  nights 
he  be  indulged  the  privilege  of  making  use  of  the 
Lodge  room,  for  the  Laudable  purpose  of  lecturing 
on  the  Iseoretic  and  Experimental  Tenets  held  forth 
by  Sir  Isaac  Newton  and  others,  in  their  systems  of 
Natural  Philosophy:  "When  it  was  unanimously  agreed 
by  the  Brethren  then  present,  that  such  request  of  this 
learned  Gentleman  be  complied  with;  as  it  tended  to 
diffuse  science,  and  throw  light  on  doctrines  hitherto 
considered  by  less  elevated  minds,  as  abtruse,  and 
even  inscrutable.— A  clause  is,  however,  super  added: 
that  for  the  Safety  of  the  Lodge,  it's  Furniture  and 
Implements,  the  Tyler  always  attend  when  such  Lec- 
tures are  exhibited;  and  that  for  each  time,  and  such 
attendance,  he  be  paid  by  Mr  MacPherson,  the  sum  of 
One  Dollar. 

Bro.  Kirkpatrick  paid  7  shillings  6d.  for  Mr  Gray- 
son. Bros.  Bowden  &  MacGuffin  paid  £  1—15—0 
Each  for  their  Initiation  and  3  shillings  9d.  each  for 
the  Tylers  dues. 

^  John  Maepherson  was  the  builder  and  owner  of  the  Mansion 
known  as  "  Mt.  Pleasant "  now  in  Fairmount  park.  Two  of  his 
sons  were  prominent  officers  during  the  Revolution.  The  mansion 
was  occupied  for  a  short  time  by  Benedict  Arnold  after  his  marriage 
to  Peggy  Ship  pen. 

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1730— 3freema0onr^  in  pennsi^Ivania— 1907 

Bro  Christoph  Irwine  pd.  £  4—8—6  in  full  for  his 
initiation  fees  and  arrearages. 

Paid  at  same  time,  by  order  of  the  W.  M.  into  the 
hands  of  Bro  Kirkpatrick  and  Dick,  the  sum  of  six 
Dollars,  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  Refreshments 
for  the  Brethren,  and  the  further  sum  of  two  Dollars 
to  the  Tyler  for  Tyling  the  Lodge  and  Summoning 
the  Members 

In  consideration  of  the  accumulated  business  of  the 
Lodge,  this  night,  the  Members  present  unanimously 
agreed  to  dispense  with  the  lecture  which  by  the  Bye- 
Laws,  is  obligatory  on  the  Master  every  stated  Lodge 
night,  except  the  Majority  then  present  and  pleased 
to  excuse  him  therefrom— and  his  Fine  was  therefore 
remitted. — 

The  Lodge  adjourned  to  the  hour  of  Five  tomorrow 
evening— and  was  then  closed  in  good  harmony. 

J.  Fallon  Sec'y 

Wednesday,  January  9,  1782,  A.  M.  5785.— Extra 
Lodge  opened  in  due  form. 

Bro  Charles  Young  W.  M.  in  the  Chair— Farril,  S. 
W.— Fisher,  J.  W.-Proctor,  P.  M.-Fallon,  Sec'y— 
Present  13  Members,  and  7  Visiting  Brethren. 

Transactions.  —  An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened.  Bro. 
Hoopes  paid  20  Shillings— the  stated  fees  for  having 
been  admitted  a  Member  of  the  Lodge.— J.  McLain 
paid  7  Shillings  dues  to  last  S'  John's  Day.— Mr. 
Moffit,  who  petitioned,  was  balloted  for  and  approved 

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itnnDer  tbe  iprovtncial  Grant)  %ot>QC 

last  Lodge  night,  and  being  necessarily  called  to  Sea 
before  the  expiration  of  time  fixed  by  the  By-Laws  for 
his  Initiation,  hath  now  been  entered  into  the  mys- 
teries of  the  first  Masonic  Step,  in  Virtue  of  a  Dis- 
pensation from  the  D.  G.  Master,  granted  for  that 
purpose.— He  gave  thanks  and  paid  £  3—10—0  fees 
and  7.06d  for  the  Tyler. 

E.  A.  Lodge  Closed  &  F.  C.  Opened.  Bros.  J. 
Bowen  and  R  MacGufifin  were  passed  to  Second 
Degree. 

F.  C.  Lodge  Closed  and  M.  M.  Lodge  opened,  when 
Bro  J^  MacLain  was  raised  to  the  third  step. 

Bro  Young  W.  M.  of  the  Lodge  was,  at  this  period 
called  out  of  Lodge  on  business,  when  his  Jewels  & 
Chair  were  resigned  to  Bro  Boyle,  who  raised  Bros. 
E.  Bowen  and  W.  MacGuffin  to  the  Sublime  Step  in 
Masonry. 

On  Motion  made  by  Bro  Proctor,  seconded  by  Bro 
Boyle,  the  W,  M.  then  presiding,  the  sum  of  £  1—10 
—6  was  then  deposited  by  the  Brethren,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  purchasing  a  Great  Coat  for  Bro  Gyslin,  the 
Tyler. 

Received  three  Dollars  from  Bros  Bowen  and  Mac- 
Guffin for  the  expenses  of  the  night,  out  of  which  four 
Shillings  and  Six  pence  were  paid  to  the  Tyler— for 
Biscuits  purchased. 

Lodge  closed  half  past  Eleven  in  good  Fellowship 
&  Harmony. 

Saturday,  January  12,  i785.— Extra  Lodge  opened 


X730— ifreemaeonr^  in  jpenns^lvanta— 1907 

in  due  form.  Bro.  Clias.  Young,  W.  M  in  the  Chair. 
—Present— Seven  Members  and  one  Visitor. 

Transactions.— A  F.  C.  Lodge  was  opened  and  Bro 
Moffit  was  passed  to  second  Degree— F.  C.  Lodge 
closed  and  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  when  Bro  Moffit  was 
raised  to  sublime  degree  of  M.  M.  and  rendered  thanks 
for  that  exalted  Honor.— Lodge  then  closed  in  perfect 
harmony 

Monday,  January  14,  i7S5.— Extra  Lodge  opened 
in  due  form  Bro  Chas.  Young  Esq  W.  M.  in  the 
Chair.— Present— Eight  Members  and  nine  Visiting 
Brethren. — 

Transactions.— A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened— Bro.  C. 
Irwine  passed  to  second  step  in  Masonry.  F.  C. 
Lodge  then  closed,  and  M.  M.  opened;  when  the  Bro. 
just  passed,  was  then  raised  to  the  Degree  of  a  M.  M. 

Paid  Bro.  Farrel  one  quarter  Dollar  to  disburse  for 
Candles  for  the  night.  Lodge  closed  in  good  Har- 
mony.— 

Tuesday,  February  12,  ^755.— Stated  Lodge  in  due 
form.  Bro.  P.  Farril  S.  W.  and  W.  M.  pro.  tempore 
in  the  Chair.— Bro.  W"  M.  Smith— Treas,  and  S.  W. 
pro.  tem.— Wister  J.  W.  pro.  tern 

Present,  Eleven  Members  and  eleven  Visiting 
brethren. 

Transactions.— Ajd.  E.  A.  Lodge  opened.  When  an 
authentic  extract  from  the  minutes  of  Lodge  No  4, 
was  Communicated  by  Bros  Adams  and  Ord  of  that 
Lodge:— 

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"inn^er  tbe  provincial  0rant)  %o^qc 

"Mr  Mich^  Clerk,  having  lain  tlie  usual  time  on  our 
books,  was  balloted  for,  and  being  by  the  report  found 
unworthy,  was  blackball' d— Ordered  that  the  above 
be  made  known  to  the  different  Lodges  in  our  Vi- 
cinity"— Signed    J.  Shober  Sec'y. 

The  aforesaid  Committe  (Adams  &  Ord)  were 
further  authorized  to  represent  to  this  Lodge,  the 
wish  of  Lodge  No  4,  that  a  Committe  be  appointed  to 
convene  with  other  Committes  from  the  different 
Lodges  of  this  City,  on  the  subject  of  deliberating, 
consulting  and  deciding  on  the  propriety  of  raising 
the  Initiation  fees,  as  also  on  the  subject  of  making 
better  provision  for  Bro  Gyslin,  the  Tyler.— Eeport 
adopted  and  Bros  Smith  and  Wister  appointed  a  com- 
mitte for  the  purpose.  Mess.  Tinsley  and  Grayson, 
were  initiated  in  the  first  degree.— The  W.  M.  then 
gave  an  E.  A.  Lecture. 

At  half  past  ten,  the  Lodge  Closed  in  good  Fellow- 
ship. 

Wednesday,  February  13,  ^755.- Extra  Lodge  in 
due  form.  Bro  P.  Farril  S.  W.  in  the  Chair— Pres- 
ent, Eight  Members,  and  five  Visitors. 

Transactions. — A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened— Bro  Tins- 
ley  was  passed.  F.  C.  Lodge  closed  and  M.  M.  Lodge 
opened  when  Bro  Tinsley  was  raised  to  third  Degree. 
— M.  M.  Lodge  closed  and  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when 
Tristram  Moore  and  Thomas  Speer  were  Entered. 

It  was  then  Motioned  from  the  Chair,  to  have  the 
sentiments  of  the  Lodge,  whether  past  experience  had 


1730— yreemasonr^  in  ipenns^lvanta— X907 

not  evinced,  tliat  the  use  and  abuse  hitherto  made  of 
the  indulgence  so  liberally  granted  to  Mr  Jno.  Mc- 
Pherson  occasionally  to  possess  the  Lodge-room,  for 
the  purpose  of  Lecturing  on  Astronomy  &c,  doth  not 
actually  authorize  the  Lodge,  to  revoke  the  said  Indul- 
gence; and  further  that  the  Secretary  be  directed  to 
desire  Mr  McPherson,  to  have  all  his  Implements  and 
Aparatus  removed  out  of  the  said  room  by  the  second 
Tuesday  in  March  next,  being  the  Stated  Lodge  night; 
when,  after  some  short  debate,  and  the  question  being 
again  put,  it  was  unanimously  carried  in  the  affirma- 
tive: whereupon,  the  Secretary  was  directed,  to  have 
a  Letter  prepared,  and  addressed  to  Mr  McPherson, 
expressive  of  this  decision  in  order  to  submit  it  to  the 
revision  of  this  Lodge  on  the  next  night  of  meeting. 

The  Lodge  then  closed,  and  adjourned,  till  tomor- 
row night,  to  convene  in  the  Lodge  room  of  No  3, 
which  the  Master,  officers  and  Brethren  of  that  Lodge 
obligingly  granted,  as  Mr  McPherson  had  preemptorily 
protested  against  the  admission  of  this  Lodge  to  their 
own  Appartment,  and  as  Bro.  Shippen  had  occasion 
for  the  adjoining— Lodgeroom  of  No  13;  whose  busi- 
ness this  Lodge  are  unwilling  to  impede— Parted  at 
the  hour  of  ten  in  good  Harmony. 

Thursday,  February  14,  1782.— 'Extra  Lodge  in  due 
form.  Bro.  P.  Farril  S.  W.  in  the  Chair.  Present- 
ten  members  and  seven  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened;  when  a 
Letter  written  by  the  Secretary,  addressed  to  Mr  John 

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lUn^cv  tbe  provincial  (Brant)  XoOgc 

McPherson,  on  subject  set  forth  in  the  Journals  of 
last  night,  was  read,  and  approved.  E.  A.  Lodge 
closed  and  F.  C.  opened  when  Bros  Moore  and  Speer 
were  passed  to  second  degree.  F.  C.  Lodge  closed 
and  M.  M.  Opened,  when  Bros.  Moore  and  Speer  were 
raised  to  the  sublime  degree  in  Masonry,  Closed  in 
Harmony  and  good  fellowship  ^  past  10. 

Tuesday,  March  12,  175^.— Stated  Lodge  opened  in 
due  form.  Bro  P.  Farril  S.  W.  in  the  Chair— Pres- 
ent 12  Members  8  Visiting  Brethren. 

Transactions. — An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened;  when  a 
Eeport  was  read  from,  the  United  Committes  of 
Lodges  No.  2,  3,  4,  9  and  13,  respecting  Initiation  Fees, 
as  also  the  better  support  and  provision  for  Bro 
Gysling,  the  Tyler  of  these  respective  Lodges;  which 
report  was  exhibited  in  the  followingwords  feformi- 
^Resolved,  That  the  fees  from  each  candidate  in 
future  be  the  sum  of  two  Half-Johannes^  to  the  funds 
of  the  Lodge,  five  Shillings  to  the  Sec'y?  and  the  same 
sum  of  five  shillings  to  the  Tyler,— 

'' Resolved,  That  in  consideration  of  the  long  ser- 
vices, and  present  helpless  situation  of  Bro.  W. 
Gysling,  it  is  the  sense  and  determination  of  this  Com- 
mitte,  that  as  long  as  Brother  Gysling  is  capable  of 
acting  as  Tyler,  the  different  lodges  he  serves  allow 
him  two  Dollars  a  month,  one  of  which  to  be  paid  him 
at  each  stated  monthly  meeting,  the  other  to  be  de- 

^  Half-Johannis,  a  Portugese  gold  coin  then  current  in  commer- 
cial circles,  same  as  the  louis  d'or  and  doubloon.  The  equivalent  for 
the  half  Johannis  in  United  States  gold  is  about  $6.86. 

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1730— jfrecmasonr^  in  penne^lvanta— 1907 

tained  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer,  to  be  laid  out 
according  to  the  direction  of  the  Lodges. 

W.  Moore  Smitl;      Committee  of  No  2 
Wm  Adams 


p       ^  ,  r  Committee  of  No  3 

Geo  Way  Committee  of  No  4 

Wm  Matthews     \  ^  xr    o 

TTT     /-<       1     J       ^  Committee  oi  No  9 
Wm  Copeland      j 

Jas.  Howell  jr        Com.  of  No  13 

February  14,  17(9^.— Whereupon  the  question  being 
put  from  the  chair,  It  was  unanimously  adopted — 

A  letter  was  then  read,  signed  Danl.  Eoberdeau  and 
addressed  to  the  W.  M.  of  this  Lodge,  respecting,  a 
settlement  with  the  Managers,  or  Trustees  of  this 
Building  for  past  and  future  terms  of  Eent-roll  and 
expenses  for  the  same ;  As  also  a  Billet  upon  the  same 
subject,  undersigned  Danl.  Roberdeau  and  Jno  Swift, 
addressed  to  Mr  Ball  our  W.  G.  M : ;  when  after  some 
debate  the  further  consideration  of  this  Matter  was 
postponed,  until  the  arrival  of  Bro.  Wm  Smith  the 
Grand  Secretary,  who  was  supposed  to  be  the  Person 
best  acquainted  with  every  ground  of  title  and  claim  in 
these  managers  to  make  such  requisitions.— 

A  Petition  was  then  exhibited  by  Bro.  W"  Moore 
Smith,  from  Captain  Duponceau,^  requesting  to  be 
admitted  to  the  Honor  of  Masonic  Fellowship;  when, 
according  to  the  tenor  of  our  By-Laws,  it  was  ordered 
to  lie  on  the  Books,  until  the  next  stated  Lodge-meet- 

^  Peter  Stephen  Duponceau,  b.  France,  1760,  d.  Philadelphia,  1844. 
Came  to  America  as  member  of  Baron  Steuben's  Staff,  later  trans- 
lator for  the  Secretarj^  of  Foreign  Affairs.  At  time  of  his  death 
he  was  president  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society. 

20 


BRO.  CAPT.  PETER  STEPHEN  DUPONCEAU. 

BORN   FRANCE,   1760.      DIED  PHILADELPHIA,   PA.,  1844. 

SOLDIE.R,  STATESMAN  AND  PHILOLOGIST. 


innDer  tbe  iprovincial  Grant)  %o^qc 

ing:  and  Bros.  Proctor  and  Kirkpatrick  were  ap- 
pointed to  make  the  proper  Enquiries  into  his  char- 
acter and  conduct. 

It  was  next  Motioned  by  Bro  McCullough,  and  sec- 
onded by  Bro  Proctor,  that  the  accusation  with  which 
Bro  Harman  Courter  hath  been  formerly  impeached 
by  Bro  Clarkson,  and  hitherto  unsupported  and  not 
finally  determined  on,  be  now  (in  Justice  to  the  suffer- 
ing character  of  a  Brother,  and  in  justice  to  the 
Honor  of  the  Craft)  taken  into  consideration;  when 
it  was  the  sense  of  the  Lodge,  that  an  Extra  Lodge  be 
called  on  the  next  Friday  Evening,  at  six  0  'clock,  for 
finally  hearing  and  determining  on  the  merits  of  said 
Impeachment;  and  Bros.  McCullough  and  W™  Fisher 
were  appointed  to  advise  the  Parties  thereof. 

Tuesday,  March  13,  :Z7<S5.— Adjourned  Stated  Lodge 
opened  in  due  form.     Bro.  P.  Ferral  in  the  Chair — 

Present  Twelve  members— five  Visitors 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened;  when  the 
subject  of  Impeachment,  anciently  brought  against 
Bro  H.  Courter  by  Bro.  Clarkson,  and  hitherto  unsup- 
ported; renewed  for  final  discussion  on  the  last  Lodge 
night,  but  referred  to  this,  was,  on  account  of  the 
absence  of  Bro.  Clarkson,  postponed  to  a  late  hour, 
in  hopes  that  (according  to  summons)  he  would  make 
his  appearance  e're  the  Lodge  closed,  and  support 
his  charge.  In  the  mean  time,  a  F.  C.  Lodge  was 
opened,  when  Mr  Grayson  was  passed  to  the  second 
Degree.  F.  C.  Lodge  closed  and  E.  A  again  opened. 
When  Bro  Clarkson,  not  appearing,  the  Impeachment 

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1730— Ifreemasonr)?  in  pennsi^lvanla  —  X907 

was  dismissed  as  groundless,  Bro  Courter  was  ac- 
quitted with  honor.  A  F.  C.  lodge  opened  when  Bro 
Courter  was  passed  to  the  Second  Degree.— 

Petitions  for  admission  were  received  from  Hughan 
Shewell  jr  and  Capt  John  Reiley— of  the  Invalid 
Eeg't. 

Tuesday,  April  9,  17<S5.— Stated  Lodge  opened  in 
due  form. 

Bro  P.  Ferrall  in  the  Chair.  Present  Eleven  mem- 
bers,—Eight  Visitors.— 

Transactions.— Kn  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  Mr 
William  Shutwell  (whose  Petition  for  a  long  time 
hath  laid  in  the  Books)  Capt.  Duponceau  and  Capt 
John  Reiley  of  the  Invalids  with  Mr  Hughan  Shewell 
jr  were  balloted  for  and  approved. 

Bro  Charles  Connor  a  M.  M.  applied  for  member- 
ship being  recommended  by  the  W.  M.  was  also  ap- 
proved. 

A.  E.  Lodge  Closed  and  M.  M.  opened,  when  Bro 
Benj.  Grayson  was  raised  to  third  degree.— 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Mr  Edw  McGuhan 
ordered  to  lie  on  the  books. 

Tuesday,  April  30, 17S5.— Extra  Lodge  in  due  form. 

Bro.  Charles  Young  W.  M— present  fourteen  mem- 
bers.—Six  Visitors— 

Transactions.— An  E.  A  Lodge  opened,  when  dis- 
pensations from  the  W.  D.  G.  M  were  read  for  the 
immedeate  initiation  of  Mr  John  Jordan  and 
Ebenezor  Nickerson.    They  were  balloted  for  and  ap- 

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1Iln^er  tbe  provincial  (3ran^  Xo^Qe 

proved— and  Entered  also  Thomas  Wiley  who  was 
previously  approved. 

Bros.  Jordan  and  Nickerson  paid  £  6—10—0  each 
for  their  initiation  fees  and  Bro  Wiley  £  3—17—6. 

Thursday,  May  2,  i7S5.— Adjourned  Lodge  opened 
in  due  form— Bro  Charles  Young  W.  M.  Present 
Thirteen  Members  six  Visitors 

Transactions.— A.  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  when  Bros. 
Jordan,  Shewell,  Wiley  and  Nickerson  were  passed  to 
the  Second  Degree— The  Lodge  then  adjourned  to 
Saturday  night  at  6  0 'Clock  and  was  closed  in  good 
Harmony. 

Saturday,  May  4,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge  opened 
in  due  form.     Bro  Charles  Young  W.  M.  in  the  Chair. 

Bro  P.  Ferrall,  S.  W.— Gostelowe,  J.  W.— Proctor 
P.  M  Bankson  P.  M-Boyle  P.  M-W.  M.  Smith-J. 
Fallon— Mucklehatton— Bradford— C.  Connor— Wiley 
—Jordan— Shewell— Nickerson.      Ten  Visitors.— 

Transactions.— A.  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  when  Bros 
Thomas.  Wiley— Ebenezer  Nickerson— Steph  Shewell 
and  John  Jordan  were  raised  to  the  third  and  sub- 
lime Degree  in  Masonry,  and  gave  thanks  for  that 
high  honor 

Tuesday,  May  14,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge  in  due  form 

Bro  Charles  Young  W.  M.  present  fifteen  members 
Eight  Visitors 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  a  petition 
was  received  from  Mr  Mathias  Kerlin— ordered  to 
lie  on  the  Books. 

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X730— ifrcemaeonr^  in  pennsi^lvania— 1907 

Moved  from  the  Chair  that  Bros  Ferrall  and  Brad- 
ford be  appointed  to  procure  a  floor  cloth,  with  suit- 
able devices,  for  this  Lodge,— Unanimously  assented 
to. 

A  request  from  Lodge  No.  9  handed  in  by  Bros 
Whitehead  and  Mathews,  a  Committe  from  said 
Lodge  purporting  their  distress  from  the  want  of  a 
fit  room,  to  convene  in,  and  soliciting  a  temporary 
use  of  this  Lodge  room  in  the  way  of  a  favor  was 
read,  when  it  was  moved  from  the  Chair  that  the 
sense  of  this  Lodge  be  taken  on  the  merits  of  said 
requisition,  and  whether  considering  the  distress  of 
our  Brethren,  it  may  not  be  proper  for  this  Lodge, 
to  agree  to  accomodate  Lodge  No  9  with  the  use  of 
this  room,  on  every  first  Thursday  of  the  month,  for 
the  ensuing  three  months,  when  it  was  unanimously 
carried  in  the  affirmative,  and  the  Secretary  was 
ordered  to  make  a  report  of  the  same  to  the  above 
Committe. 

A  petition  was  presented  by  Bro  Charles  Erdman 
an  E,  A.  Mason— ballated  for  and  approved. 

The  distressed  and  deplorable  situation  of  Mrs 
Moore  the  wife  of  Bro  W"  Moore  of  No  4  and  her 
family  was  laid  before  the  Lodge,  when  a  Charitable 
donation  of  £  4—10—10  Hard  money  and  five  shil- 
lings, State  of  New  Jersey  money,  was  then  admin- 
istered by  the  Brethren  and  requested  to  be  presented 
to  Bro  John  King.— 

Tuesday,  June  11,  ifS^.- Stated  Lodge  opened  in 

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ilint>cv  tbe  iprovtndal  6ran^  %ot>QC 

due  form— Present— Bro  Alex  Rutherford  in  the 
Chair. 

"W"  Smith  Gr.  Treasurer.— Jer^  Fisher  S.  W.— Bro. 
McCulloch  J.  W.— Bros  Fallon— C.  Irvine— Hopes— 
C.  Erdman  —  Duffy  —  Malahon  —  Jarvis.— Visiting- 
Brethren  —  Bros.  Hamilton  —  I^un  —  Aertson  — 
Parr— Henderson— Hughes  (1st  time). 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened— a  petition 
was  received  from  Mr  John  Rutherford— ordered  to 
lie  on  the  Books— referred  to  Bros  Hopes  &  Mc- 
Culloch. 

The  number  of  Brethren  being  too  few  for  holding 
the  election  of  officers  as  established  by  the  Bye-Laws, 
this  Business  was  therefore  defferred  to  a  future 
meeting  before  S*  Johns.— A  F.  C.  Lodge  then  opened, 
when  Bro  Charles  Erdman  &  Andrew  Duffy  were 
passed  to  F.  C. 

As  there  was  no  nourishment  provided,  no  dues 
were  paid,  Lodge  was  then  adjourned  to  next  Friday 
night 

Closed  in  good  Harmony. 

June  14,  iT'S^.- Adjourned  Stated  Lodge  in  due 
form — 

Bro  Charles  Young  W.  M.— Present— Proctor  P.  M 
Eleven  members,  and  five  Visitors 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  was  opened,  and 
an  election  held  for  officers  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
six  months:  When  Bro  Chas.  Young  was  re-elected 
to  the  Chair— Bro  Wister  S.  W.— Bro  Roberts  J.  "W. 

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X730— jfreemasonr^  in  ipenns^lvania— X907 

— Bro  W™  Fisher,  Treas.— Bro  Hopes  Sec'y.— Bro 
Jarvis  S.  D— Bro.  Chris.  Irvin  J.  D.  and  Bros 
Sewell  and  King  Stewards.— It  was  then  agreed  that 
the  Brethren  dine  on  the  ensuing  St  John's  Day  at 
Bro  Skinners  near  the  Play  House. 

June  15,  1782.—'Lodge  opened  in  due  form— Bro  C. 
Young  W.  M.  Present,  Eleven  members,— three 
Visitors.— 

Transactions.— A.  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  when  Bros. 
King,  Molohan  and  Erdman  were  raised  to  the  sub- 
lime degree  of  M.  M. 

St.  John's  Day,  June  24, 1785.- Present  Bros  Chas. 
Young  W.  M.-Wister  S.  W.  Eoberts- J.  W.— W"^  M. 
Smith.— Savage  Fallon— Gassaway—Shewell— Hopes 
—Erdman  Irvine  and  W.  Fisher.— Visiting  Brethren. 
—Bros  Allen— Ord— Connor. 

Transactions.— A  Masters  Lodge  was  opened  in  due 
form,  when  the  officers  were  installed,  according  to 
ancient  usage.— The  customary  congratulations,  then 
passed.  When  an  E.  A.  Lodge  was  Opened  and 
Closed. 

The  Brethren  then  adjourned  to  Bro  Skinner's 
where  a  dinner  was  prepared,  and  the  day  spent  in 
festivity  and  good  Harmony.— 

July  9,  :Z7<95.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  Chas. 
Young  W.  M.— Eleven  members— six  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  Opened,  when  Mr 
Stephen  Deponceau  was  initiated,  and  received  the 
first  degree  in  Masonry,  returned  and  gave  thanks. 

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"IHnDer  tbe  provincial  (BranD  %o^qc 

Petitions  were  received  from  Messrs.  Eames 
Geary,  and  Thomas  Maybray.— 

John  Rutherford,  was  balloted  for  and  approved. 

Following  Committe  was  appointed  to  meet  at  W" 
Moores  cor  Almond  &  front  Sts  to  settle  the  accounts 
of  the  Lodge  on  friday  next  at  6  0 'Clock  P.  M.  viz: 
The  W.  M.  and  Bros  Wister— Fisher— Ferrall— Smith 
—Hopes  &  Skinner. 

A  letter  from  Lodge  No  9  was  read  Informing  that 
a  certain  Hugh  Smith— was  balloted  for  and  found 
unworthy. 

On  Motion  a  Committe  was  appointed  to  purchase 
Aprons,  knives  and  forks,  plates  etc  for  the  Lodge 
and  to  order  necessary  repairs. 

June  {n.  d.),  175^.— Extra  Lodge  opened  in  due 
form. 

Present  Bro  Chas  Young  W.  M.,  Seven  members, 
and  five  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  when  Wil- 
liam Shotwell  was  balloted  for  approved  and  entered. 
Mess.  Geary — Maybray  and  Wayman  having  a  dis- 
pensation from  the  W.  D.  G.  Master— were  balloted 
for  and  approved. 

Extra  Lodge  then  adjourned  to  thursday  Evening 
next  at  5  0  Clock  to  comply  with  said  dispensations 

July  25,  :Z755.— Adjourned  extra  Lodge  opened. 

Present— Chas.  Young  W.  M.— ten  members- 
Twelve  Visitors 

Transactions. — An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  when  Edw. 


1730— ifreemasonr^  in  pennei^lvanta— 1907 

Wayman  Thos  Maybray  and  Eneas  Geary  were  en- 
tered. E.  A.  Closed  F.  C.  opened— when  Bros  Way- 
man  and  Shotwell  were  passed  to  F.  C.  A  Masters 
Lodge  then  opened  when  Bro  Weyman  was  raised  to 
the  Sublime  degree. 

July  23*  1782 


Lodge  number  2 

D 

r  to 

Martin  Inginz 

For  a  Mallet 

2—0 

"    3  Sockets 

4—6 

one  piece  of  Brass 

1—6 

one  Brass  Socket 

1—6 

for  cleaning  and  mending  and  painting 

8  candle  sticks 

£  3- 

-0—0 

"    2  Culums 

8-0 

"   mending  the  Arch  and  Drawer 

and  gluing  some  pieces 

6-0 

"    cleaning  the  rooms 

6-0 

£  4^9—6 

July  31,  i7(95.— Extra  Lodge  opened— Present. 
Bros.  Rutherford  D.  G.  M.-Chas  Young  W.  M.  Thos. 
Proctor  P.  M  and  Sixteen  members,    five  Visitors 

Transactions.— A.  dispensation  being  read  in  favor 
of  Mr  Gifford  Dally,  who  was  balloted  for,  approved 
and  entered.  The  dues  of  the  night  were  then  paid 
to  the  Treasurer  for  refreshment— a  F.  C.  Lodge  was 
then  opened  when  Bro  Eneas  Geary  was  passed  to 
the  degree  of  a  F.  C.  Lodge  closed  in  good  Harmony. 

August  14,  i7(S5.— Stated  Lodge  opened.  Present. 
Bro  Charles  Young  W.  M.  twelve  members,  and  Eight 
Visitors :— Bros.  Adcock—Ord— Summons— Hamilton 
—Gilchrist— Oswald— Wliitehead  and  Wool.— 

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innt)er  Ibe  provincial  (Brant)  XoOac 


Transactions.— K  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  when  Bros 
Peter  Stephen  Duponceau  &  Gifford  Dally  were 
passed  to  the  degree  of  F.  C. 

The  Transactions  of  the  Grand  Lodge  was  then 
read,  when  the  W.  M.  requested  that  a  committe 
should  be  appointed  to  receive  a  Subscription  from 
the  Brethren  to  defray  the  Ground  rent  of  this  Lodge 
House,  to  be  passed  to  their  respective  credits,  if 
the  former  funds  were  found  sufficient,  for  that  pur- 
pose— 

Committe:— Bros  Wister— Abm.  Roberts  &  W" 
Fisher  jun. 

The  Committe  appointed  Last  stated  lodge  night 
were  reappointed  for  settling  the  old  accounts  of  this 
Lodge. 

The  Customary  Lecture  was  despensed  with.  Bro 
Duponceau  paid  10  Shillings  being  the  remainder  of 
his  fees. 

Friday,  August  16,  IZS^.- Extra  Lodge  opened  in 
due  form— Present— Bro  Chas.  Young,  W  M— Twelve 
Members,  and  Twelve  Visitors. 

Transactions.— K.  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  when  Bro 
Gifford  Dally  was  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree  of 
Masonry. 

September  10,  1785.— Stated  Lodge  opened  in  due 
form.— Present  Bro  Chas.  Young  W.  M.  Seven  Mem- 
bers and  three  Visitors 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened— a  petition 

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1730— ifreemasonr^  In  pennsi^lvanta  — 1907 

from  W"  Guise  was  presented  by  Bro  Erdman— also 
a  Dispensation  in  favor  of  Capt  W""  Keeler 

Petitions  from  Henry  Peircy  and  James  Hartly 
were  also  received,  recomended  by  Bro  Rutherford 
and  Weyman.  Referred  to  Bros  W""  Fisher  and  P. 
Ferral. 

Ordered  to  lay  on  the  books  owing  to  the  indispo- 
sition of  the  Tyler  the  brethren  were  not  properly 
notified. 

Thursday,  September  12,  ^75-2.— Adjourned  Lodge 
—Present  Bro  Chas.  Young  W.  M.  Eight  Members, 
and  one  Visitor. 

Transactions.— An.  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  when  Capt 
W"  Keeler  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  Entered 

Mr  David  Hamilton  (a  Modern  Mason)  by  dispen- 
sation, was  balloted  for,  approved  and  entered. 

A  petition  was  handed  by  Bro  W"  Shirtliff  in  favor 
of  David  Shoemaker  with  a  deposite  of  one  Dollar— 
ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books. 

Tuesday  October  8,  1782.— 'Lodge  opened  in  due 
form— Present  Bros  Chas.  Young  W.  M.— Geo  Hopes 
—Weyman— D  Hamilton— Visitor  G.  Hamilton. 

Transactions.— Owing  to  its  being  the  day  of  Elec- 
tion for  Representatives  in  the  Assembly— this  Lodge 
was  adjourned  to  Thursday  Evening  next  at  6 
O'Clock- 

Thursday,  October  10,  i 755.— Adjourned  Lodge 
opened  in  due  form.  Present  Bro  Chas  Young  W.  M. 
ten  Members,  and  Seven  Visiting  Brethren. 

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"Un^er  Ibe  provincial  (Brant)  %o^qc 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  Wil- 
liam Guise  Henry  Peircy  &  James  Hartley  were  bal- 
loted for  &  found  worthy.— On  motion  of  the  W.  M.  a 
ballot  was  taken  on  David  Shoemaker,  there  being  one 
dissenting  vote  it  was  deferred  to  a  future  day. 

Lodge  closed,  F.  C.  opened,  when  Bros  David 
Hamilton  and  William  Keeler  were  passed  to  F.  C. 

Lodge  closed,  M.  M.  opened  when  Bro  D.  Hamilton 
was  raised. 

An  application  being  made  by  Bro  Joseph  Howell 
of  Lodge  N°  13  to  purchase  three  of  our  Candlesticks 
for  said  Lodge— was  granted  and  Bro  Jugier  ap- 
pointed to  value  the  same  and  report  to  this  Lodge.— 

Thursday,  October  31,  175^.— Extra  Lodge  in  due 
form.  Present  Bro  Charles  Young  W.  M.,  Eight 
Members  and  five  Visitors. 

Transactions. — An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  Mr 
James  Hartley  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  En- 
tered. 

Four  dispensations  were  then  read  in  favor  of  Mess. 
Thomas  White,  William  Thompson,  James  Carpenter 
and  James  Johnson  formerly  a  Modern,  they  were 
balloted  for,  approved  and  Entered.— Bro  Johnson 
paid  £  3-5-0  in  full  for  his  initiation  Bros  White, 
Hartley  and  Carpenter  paid  £  6—10-0  each  in  full 
for  theirs. 

November  12,  1782.  —  Stated  Lodge.  Members 
Present 

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1730— ifreemaeonri^  in  Pennsylvania— 1907 

Bro  Chas  Young  W.  M.  Bro  James  McLean 

"  Rich.  Wister  S  W  "  Edw  Evans 

"  John  Leamy  "  John  Jowis 

"  Edw.  Duff  "  Steph.  Shewell  jr 

''  Chr.  Erdman  "  Lieut  WTiite 

"  Henry  Peircey  "  James  Johnston 

"  W"  Keeler  "  McElhatton 

"  Edw  Weyman  "  Isaac  Melcher 

Visiting  Brethren 

Bro  Joseph  Howell  Bro  Geo  C.  Jenkins 

"     Ptk  Duffy  "  Saml  Shober 

"     J.  Humphrey  "  Robt.  "Weyman 

"     Chas  DaiTach  "  Saml  Nichols. 

"     Wm  Alrichs  "  M.  Whitehead 

"     J.  Stafford  "  Robert  Cox 

"    A  Boyle  "  J.  S.  Howell 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  closed  and  a  Crafts 
Lodge  opened  wlien  Bros  Johnston— Peircey— "White 
and  Hartley  were  passed  to  the  degree  of  F.  C.  An 
E.  A.  lecture  was  given  by  the  W.  M.  And  the  officers 
of  the  Lodge  were  authorized  to  change  the  night  of 
meeting,  and  it  was  accordingly  changed  to  the  second 
Monday  of  eveiy  Month. 

November  15,  i785.— Extra  Lodge  in  due  form- 
Present  Bro  Chas.  Young  W.  M.  Seven  Brethren  and 
Eleven  Visitors. 

Transactions.— A  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  when  Bros 
W"  Keeler  Henry  Peircey  and  Thos.  White  were 
raised  to  the  sublime  degree  of  M.  M. 

November  13  [sic'\,  i7S5.— Extra  Lodge  opened  in 
due  form  Present,  Bro  Richard  Wister  Master  P. 
T.— Eleven  Members  and  Eight  Visitors. 

Trowisaci^ioiis.- AnE.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  Hemy 

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RICHARD    WISTAR,    W.    M.    LODGE,    No.   2. 

BORN    PHILADELPHIA    JULY  20.   1756;     DIED  JUNE  6,   1821. 


inn^er  tbe  provincial  6ran^  Xo^oe 

Guize  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  entered,  returned 
thanks  and  paid  £  6—10—0  in  full  for  his  initiation 
fees. 

December  9,  i 7(9-2.- Stated  Lodge  opened  in  Due 
form.  Present  Bro.  Jac.  Bankson  in  the  Chair— Wis- 
ter,  S.  W.— Weyman,  J.  W.  pt  Rutherford— Peircey 
—McCartney— Guize— Erdman—Melchior  —  Hartley 
—Hopes.  Visiting  Brethren— Bros  Hand— Marshall 
— Robt.  Weyman— Shober  and  Hunter  (1st  time) 

Transactions.— A.n  E.  A.  Lodge  Opened,  when  peti- 
tions were  read  from  W""  Milnor  and  Isaac  Penning- 
ton, recommended  by  Bro  Bankson— ordered  to  lay 
on  the  Books  and  referred  to  Bros  Wister  and 
Melcher. 

This  being  the  stated  night  preceeding  St  John's, 
the  following  Brethren  were  duly  elected,  officers  for 
the  Coming  six  Months,  Viz  Bro  Richard  Wister  W. 
M.  Bro  Abrm.  Roberts  Senior  and  Bro  W"  Fisher 
Junior  Wardens.— Bro  Patk  Parrel,  Treasurer,  Bro 
Hopes  Secretary.  Bro  Jere''  Fisher  Sen.  and  Bro 
Hartley  Jun  Deacons.  This  Lodge  closed  and  a  Mas- 
ters opened  when  Bro  James  Hartley  was  raised  to 
the  degree  of  a  M.  M. 

December  27,  1782.— ^i  John's  Day.— 

Bro  A,  Rutherford  D,  G.  M.  in  the  Chair   Visiting  Brethren 

"  Wister  S.  W.  Bro  Adcoek 

"  McLean  "     Ord 

"  McEUhatton  "    Bernard 

"  Hopes  "     Simmons 

"  Young 
3  33 


X730— 3freema0onr^  in  ipenne^lvanta— 1907 

A  Master  Masons  Lodge  opened  in  due  form  when 
the  following  Brethren  were  installed,  according  to 
ancient  form  viz— Bro.  Richard  Wister  Master— Bro 
A  Roberts  Senior,  and  Bro  W""  Fisher  Junior  War- 
dens and  Bro  Patt  Ferrall,  Treasurer 

Closed  in  good  Harmony. 

January  13,  1785. —Stated  Lodge.— Opened  in  due 
form.  Present  Bro  Richard  Wister  W.  M.— thirteen 
Members,  and  Eleven  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  Bros  W° 
Milner  and  Isaac  Pennington  were  balloted  for  and 
found  worthy.  A  petition  was  read  in  favor  of  Capt 
John  Erwin,  recomended  by  Bros  Proctor  and 
Young,  with  a  dispensation  from  the  R.  W.  D.  G. 
Master  being  duly  balloted  for  was  approved.— Two 
petitions  were  then  read  in  favor  of  Mr  Wliite  Mat- 
lack  and  Nathan  Twining  recomended  by  Bros  Poctor 
and  Young— ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books— Committe 
Farral,  Roberts  and  Hopes. 

Bros.  Milnor  and  Pennington  were  entered. 

A  Committe  from  Lodge  No  4  waited  on  this  Lodge 
with  a  requisition  from  their  body,  praying  that  they 
might  be  admitted  to  the  use  of  this  Lodge  room, 
their  own  being  for  many  reasons  inconvenient  to  meet 
in,  when  the  sense  of  the  Lodge  being  taken  by  Ballot 
it  was  given  in  the  Affirmative,  provided  their  meet- 
ings would  not  interfere  with  the  Meetings  of  this 
Lodge  and  No  13. 

Received  of  Bro  Milnor  and  Pennington  £  6—10-0 

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IDlnDer  the  provincial  6ran^  XoDge 

Each  in  full  for  their  initiation  fees,  and  also  paid 
thirty  shillings  for  the  expenses  of  the  night. 

Letter  from  Wm.  Rogers,  Grand  Chaplain. 

Philada  Jany  1—1783 
Dear  Sir 

The  Bearer  hereof  Mrs  Ann  Tatnall  is  a  person  with  whom 
I  am  well  acquainted,  She  is  a  Widow  "Woman  with  an  Orphan 
Grand  Child  to  support  &  stands  in  great  need  from  her 
destitute  Situation  of  any  help  the  Charitable  see  fit  to  Bestow. 
Hearing  of  the  Collection  made  by  our  Fraternity  on  Satur- 
day, she  has  applyed  to  me  for  a  Note  to  you  in  her  Favor — 
From,  D'"  S"".,  y""^.  affectionately 

W".  Rogers 
Wn^LiAM  Adcock  Esq"". 

R.  W.  G.  M. 

January  29,  i7(S5.— Extra  Lodge  opened  in  due  form 
Present  Bro  Wistar  W.  M.  thirteen  Members  and 
Seven  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  a  dis- 
pensation was  read  in  favor  of  Robert  Adams  a  Clan- 
destine Mason  and  Peter  Dow,  his  business  not  per- 
mitting him  to  remain  the  usual  time  for  initiation. 
Thy  were  balloted  for,  approved  and  entered.  A  F. 
C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bro  Adams  was  passed  a 
Fellow  Craft. 

January  31,  i7S5.— Extra  Lodge,  opened  in  due 
form— Present  Bro  Rich.  Wister  W.  M.  seventeen 
Members,— Eight  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  and  closed. 

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1730— 3freema0onr^  in  ipcnns^^lvania  — 1907 

A  F.  C.  Opened,  when  Bro  Milnor,  Pennington  and 
Dow  were  passed  to  degrees  of  F.  C.  This  Lodge 
Closed  and  a  Masters  opened,  when  Bros.  Robert 
Adams,  and  Peter  Dow  were  raised  to  the  sublime 
degree. 

Monday,  February  10,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge  opened 
—Present  Bro  Rich.  Wister  in  the  Chair,  Twenty 
Members— Twelve  Visiting  Brethren. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bro 
Irvin  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  Entered. 

Three  Petitions  were  then  read  from  Caspar  Wister, 
Abrm.  Shoemaker  and  Aaron  Musgrove,  ordered  to 
lie  on  the  books,  and  Bros  Roberts  and  Keeler  to 
examine  into  their  characters. 

Committe  report  on  Mess  White  Matlack  and  Na- 
thanial  Twining  being  favorable,  they  were  balloted 
for  and  approved. 

A  Memorial  from  Bro.  Thos.  Eddison  of  Lodge  N° 
3  was  read  praying  relief  from  the  different  Lodges 
in  this  City. 

A  Committe  from  Lodges  No  3,— 4— 9  and  13  waited 
on  this  Lodge  in  order  to  consult  on  the  necessity  of 
raising  the  Lodge  dues,  from  1  shilling  to  a  quarter 
of  a  Dollar,  as  the  former  sum  was  found  inadequate 
to  the  Charitable  purposes  intended— Bros  Keeler,— 
Hopes  and  Ferrall  were  appointed  a  Committe  for 
that  purpose.  A  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  when  Bros. 
Milnor  and  Pennington  were  raised  to  the  degree  of 
M.  M. 

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"lIlnDer  tbe  provincial  6ranD  %o^qc 

February  11,  J7.S5.— Extra  Lodge  opened— Present 
— Bro  Rich.  Wister  W.  M.— Seven  Members— Two 
Visiting  brethren. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lo(^ge  opened,  when  White 
Matlack  was  initiated  into  the  first  step  of  Masonry. 

February  14,  i7<S5.— Extra  Lodge  opened— Present, 
Bro.  Rich  Wister  W.  M.  Sixteen  members— seven 
visitors. — 

TroMsactions.— An  A.  E.  Lodge  opened— The  com- 
mitte  appointed  to  collect  the  arrearages  of  the  Lodge 
dues— are  hereby  Continued  and  are  impowered  by 
this  Lodge  to  call  and  settle  with  the  different  Breth- 
ren and  report  at  the  next  meeting— Lodge  closed  and 
a  Masters  Lodge  opened,  when  Bros.  W™  Shirtliff 
and  Eneas  Geary  were  raised  to  the  sublime  degree. 

March  10,  1755.- Stated  Lodge— Opened  in  due 
form. 

Present— Bro  Weyman  in  the  chair  pro.  tern, 
Bro  Roberts  S.  W.— Keeler  J.  W.  p.  t— Ferral— 
Hopes  —  Rutherford  —  Erdman— Pennington — Irvine 
— Guize  —  Milner  —  Connor— Shotwell  Fisher— Mc- 
Cartney —  Shirtliif.  —  Visiting  Brethren,  Shober 
Howell— Kendell— for  first  time  Bros  Cariol— Willis 
Vernon — Jenkins. 

TramBactions.—An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  when  Cas- 
par Wister,  was  balloted  for  and  approved— as  was 
Mr  Nathaniel  Twining  who  was  also  entered 

Mr  Aaron  Musgrave,  being  reported  by  the  com- 
mitte  to  be  under  age,  was  referred  to  a  future  day. 

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Abraliam  Shoemaker  was  then  balloted  for  and 
Blackballed  by  two  members. 

A  Complaint  from  Bro  Mathews  of  Lodge  No  9 
against  Bro  Harman  Cowster  was  referred  to  our 
Next  Meeting. 

A  petition  was  read  from  John  Frankford,  recom- 
ended  by  Bros  Ferral  and  Hopes— referred  to  Bros. 
Eoberts  and  W"  Fisher 

Lodge  closed,  and  Masters  Lodge  opened  when 
Bro  Shotwell  was  raised  to  the  degree  of  a  Master 
Mason. 

The  Treasurer  paid  to  Bro  Milnor  £  2—8—3.  in 
full  for  bill  for  refreshment. 

March  15,  i7<S5.— Adjourned  Lodge— opened  in  due 
form.  Present  Bro  Eich.  Wister  Master— ten  Breth- 
ren—five visitors. 

Transactions.— A.n  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when.  The 
Committe  from  the  several  Lodges  appointed  to  raise 
the  Lodge  dues,  having  met  and  brought  their  pro- 
ceedings before  this  Lodge,  it  was  read  and  debated 
by  Paragraphs  and  agreed  to. 

Bros.  Proctor— Eoberts  and  Ferral  are  a^Dpointed 
a  committe  from  this  Lodge  for  the  purpose— The 
Proceedings  are  as  follows:— 

The  Committee  from  the  several  Lodges  of  Ancient  Masons 
in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  appointed  to  Consider  and  point 
out  proper  means  to  relieve  indigent  and  distress 'd  Masons, 
having  taken  the  business  committed  to  them  into  their  serious 
consideration  beg  leave  to  report  their  opinion,  which  is  as 
follpws.    ...  * 

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irinC)cr  tbe  provincial  (5ran^  Xo^Qe 

That  the  sums  now  paid  by  each  Brother  to  his  respective 
Lodge  as  monthly  dues  are  inadequate  for  the  purpose  of  a 
Charity  fund,  as  the  contingent  expenses  of  the  Lodges  are 
also  defrayed  therefrom: 

That  a  new  fund  ought  to  be  established,  to  be  a  common 
stock  of  the  whole  Masonic  body  of  this  City,  which  new  fund 
ought  to  be  for  the  purpose  of  relieving  the  distressed  part  of 
our  Brethren  and  for  no  other: 

That  in  order  to  create  this  new  fund  the  monthly  dues  or 
fees,  of  one  shilling  heretofore  paid  by  each  brother  to  his 
respective  Lodge  ought  to  be  increased  to  one  shilling  and  ten 
pence  half  penny : 

That  there  ought  to  be  a  standing  committee  from  each 
Lodge  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia  to  be  stiled  "  the  committee 
for  the  relief  of  distressed  and  indigent  Masons,"  to  whom 
the  Treasurer  of  each  respective  Lodge  should  on  the  first 
Monday  of  every  month  pay  over  ten  pence  half  penny,  out 
of  every  one  shilling  and  ten  pence  half  penny,  the  said 
Treasurers  respectively  shall  have  received  for  Lodge  dues  in 
the  preceding  month. 

That  the  said  committee  ought  to  be  chosen  by  each  Lodge 
in  such  manner  and  at  such  times  as  the  several  Lodges 
respectively  may  from  time  to  time  see  fit  and  necessary :  but 
that  there  ought  not  to  be  more  than  three  members  from  each 
Lodge  on  the  said  committee. 

That  each  Lodge  represented  in  the  said  committee  ought 
to  have  controul  over  the  members  representing  them  in  the 
same ;  and  the  said  members  ought  to  vote  by  Lodge  and  not 
otherways,   and  that  any  one  member  may  have  the  votes 

*  This  was  the  first  organized  effort  made,  so  far  as  known,  in  the 
United  States  for  the  "  relief  of  distressed  and  indigent  Free 
Masons." 

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1730— freemasonry  in  ipenne^lvania— 1907 

entered  on  the  minutes  of  their  proceedings  without  any 
question. 

That  the  said  committee  ought  to  have  power  in  all  things 
touching  the  business  assigned  them,  where  these  regulations 
are  silent,  to  regulate  their  own  proceedings,  and  appoint 
such  officers  as  they  may  deem  proper;  provided  that  none 
shall  be  appointed  who  are  not  members  of  the  said  committee. 

That  the  said  committee  ought  to  keep  fair  Minutes  of  all 
their  proceedings,  and  make  report  thereof  to  their  respective 
Lodges  on  their  convention  next  before  the  feast  of  St.  John, 
and  oftener  if  required. 

That  the  several  Lodges  of  which  the  said  committee  is  to 
be  composed  ought  immediately  to  pass  such  Laws  as  will  be 
best,  bring  the  foregoing  into  effect:  and  that  they  ought  to 
be  particularly  attentive  to  the  collection  of  the  Lodge  dues, 
upon  which  as  your  present  committee  humbly  conceive  will 
depend  altogether  the  success  of  the  benevolent  intentions  of 
the  respective  Lodges  to  whom  they  have  the  honor  to  offer 
this  report. 

Signed  by  a  Committee  from  Lodges  N°.  2,  3,  4,  9  &  13  in 
this  City. 

Petitions  were  read  from  Thomas  Mewse  and  Fred- 
erick Eheinwald  (a  Modern  Mason)  Eef erred  to  Bros 
Hartley  and  Pennington— E.  A.  Lodge  Closed  F.  C. 
opened  when  John  Irwin  was  passed  to  that  degree. 

April  5,  1783.— 'Extra  Lodge  Opened  in  due  form. 
Present  Bro  Rich.  Wister  W.  M.— Twelve  members 
and  four  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  Cas- 
par Wister  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  entered. 
Lodge  closed  and  a  F.  C.  opened  when  Bro  White 

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^:^' 


CASPAR     WISTAR,    M.  D. 

BORN    PHILADELPHIA,   SEPTEMBER   13,    1761  :     DIED  JUNE  6,   181f 


■innDer  tbe  provincial  6ranD  %ot)QC 

Matlock  was  passed  to  F.  C.  gave  thanks  and  paid 
£  6—10—0  in  full  for  his  initiation  fees. 

April  8,  i 755.— Extra  Lodge— opened  in  due  form— 
Present  Bro  Eich.  Wister— Nine  Members  and  two 
Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  and  closed. 
—A  F.  C.  opened  when  Bros.  Henry  Guise  and  Cas- 
par Wister  were  passed  to  the  degree  of  F.  C. 

April  14,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge  opened  in  due  form. 
Present  Bro  Jacob  Bankson  Master  p.  t.— thirteen 
Members  and  Seven  Visitors. 

Transactions.— Kn  E.  A.  Lodge  open'd  when 
after  a  re-examination  into  the  cause  of  Mr  Abram 
Shoemaker,  being  blackballed  last  stated  Lodge  night 
the  W.  M.  ordered  a  committe  to  wait  on  Bro  Ruther- 
ford to  know  his  reasons  why  he  could  not  be  ad- 
mitted to  the  fraternity,  and  to  request  Bro.  Ruther- 
ford to  attend  for  the  purpose  next  Stated  Lodge 
night,  the  following  brethren  were  appointed  viz: — 
Bros  Young,— Houston  and  Hopes. 

Mess.  John  Frankford  and  Thomas  Mewse  were 
balloted  for,  and  approved— when  Mr.  Mewse  was 
entered.  Lodge  closed  and  Masters  opened  when 
Bros.  John  Irwine  White  Matlack— Henry  Guise  and 
Caspar  Wister  were  raised  to  that  sublime  degree. 

May  12,  17S5.— Stated  Lodge,  Opened  in  due  form 

Present  members 

Bro  R.  Wister     W.  M.  Bro  Pennington 

"    Roberts  S.  W  "     McCulloeh 

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X730— ifreemasonr^  in  pennei^Ivanta  — X907 


Bro  Erdman 

JW 

Bro  Irwine 

"    Melehior 

"     C  Wister 

"     Rutherford 

"    Ferrall 

"    Fisher 

"     Hopes 

"    Baker 

"    Matlaek 

"    Milnor 

"     J.  Rice 

"     Skinner 

"    Geize 

Visiting  Brethren 

Bro  Adeoek 

Bro  S.  Shober 

"    Howell 

"     Timmons 

"     Coats 

"     Jos.  HoweU 

"     Schaffer 

"    Sellers 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened.— The  In- 
vestigation of  Mr  Abram  Shoemakers  Character  being 
found  contrary  to  the  spirit  of  our  Bye-Laws  was 
dispensed  with. 

Mr  Frederick  Eheinwalt,  balloted  for  and  approved. 

A  complaint  being  lodged  by  Bro  Adam  Melchor 
against  Bro  G.  A.  Baker,  the  sense  of  the  Lodge 
being  taken  thereon.  Bros  Houston— Erdman— 
Fisher  and  Eoberts  were  appointed  a  Committe  to 
examine  into  the  same,  and  report  next  Stated  Lodge 
night. 

June  9,  i7(S5.— Stated  Lodge— opened  in  due  form. 
Present  Bro  Young— Master  p.  t.  fourteen  members, 
Seven  Visitors:  viz  Bros  Vanost  and  Bros— Collier- 
White— Martin— Wilkin  Houston— Delaplaine,  all  Six 
for  first  time,  and  a  Committe  from  Lodge  No  4  Bros 
—  Shober,  sen.— Jennings— and  Shober  jr. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  the 
Committe    from    Lodge    ISTo    4    informed    them    that 

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1Iln^er  tbe  provincial  (3ran^  %ot>QC 

Joseph  Hawke  and  John  Erdman   Smith  had  been 
black  balled  in  their  Lodge. 

This  being  the  stated  night  preceeding  the  festival 
of  St  John  the  Baptist  following  brethren  being  duly 
balloted  for,  were  appointed  officers  for  the  ensuing 
six  Months:  viz: 

Bro  Thomas  Proctor  Master 
"     Charles  Erdman  Senior  Warden 
'*     George  Hopes  Junior  Warden 
a     Ferrall  on  a  request  from  the  Chair  was  re- 
appointed  Treasurer 
^'     John  Leamey  appointed,  Secretary 

The  Multiplicity  of  Complaints  of  a  most  singular 
Nature  lodged  at  several  times  against  Harman 
Courter,  late  a  member  of  this  Lodge  being  taken 
into  Consideration,  after  some  debate  it  was  unani- 
mously agreed,  he  should  be  expell'd  the  Body  as  by 
his  general  character  &  behaviour,  he  was  found  even 
unworthy  of  a  special  summons  as  Customary,  he  was 
accordingly  expelled  &  his  name  erased  from  the 
Books  of  the  Lodge,  the  secretary  is  ordered  to  give 
notice  of  the  same  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the  dif- 
ferent Lodges  in  this  City. 

June  11,  i7S5.— Extra  Lodge— opened  in  due  form. 
Present  Bro  Proctor  master  p.  t.— Nine  members- 
Eight  Visitors 

Transactions.— A.  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  when  Thomas 
Meuse  was  passed  to  degree  of  F.  C.     Lodge  Closed, 

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1730— ifreemaeonri?  in  ipenne^lvania— 1907 

and  Masters  lodge  opened,  when  Bro  Mense  afore- 
said was  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree.— Adjourned 
to  Friday  next  at  7  0 'Clock  in  the  evening— each 
member  to  have  notice  of  same. 

June  13,  i7S5.— Extra  Lodge  Open'd  in  due  form 
Present— Bro  Wister  W.   M.   fourteen  members- 
ten  Visitors 

The  following  application  was  presented  by  Rev. 

Bro.   Wm.    Smith,   D.D.: 

Philad'a  June  6,  1783 
Dear  Brother  Wistar — 

The  Bearers  hereof  Cols.  Doherty,  Espie  &  Hoffnagle  are 
desirous  of  being  initiated  into  the  Fraternity  of  free-Masons. 
They  are  unexceptionable  Characters,  men  of  public  Rank  & 
Credit  in  the  Counties  of  Bedford  &  "Westmoreland,  and  will 
be  of  great  Use  in  preventing  the  Progress  of  Clandestine 
Masonry,  &  promoting  the  true  Craft  &  Art  according  to  the 
ancient  Rules  &  Practice.  M"".  Huffnagle  will  give  you  some 
Reasons  why  they  should  be  speedily  made,  &  their  Residing 
at  a  great  Distance  requires  it. 

I  am  desirous  they  should  be  initiated  &  proceed  from  our 
Lodge  N°.  2  &  do  heartily  recommend  it  to  you  as  a  Master 
to  call  a  special  Lodge,  &  to  stand  Godfather  for  them  in  my 
Name,  as  I  am  on  my  way  to  New  York  &  shall  not  return  till 
Wednesday  next.  I  have  spoken  to  Brothers  Rutherford  & 
Proctor.  The  last,  viz.  Brother  Proctor  is  acquainted  with 
them.     Yours  &c 

"WHiLiAM  Smith 

An  Application  having  been  made  by  Cols.  Dougherty, 
Espie  &  Haffnagle  to  becom  Ancient  Masons,  and  their  stay 
in  this  City  will  not  permit  their  laying  the  accustomed  time 

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■^n^er  tbe  jprovtndal  (Brant)  %o^qc 

on  the  books  and  they  being  warmly  recommended  as  men  of 
Note  both  in  Publick  &  private  life,  I  am  induced  to  solicit 
for  a  dispensation  for  their  being  made  to-morrow  Evening, 
as  believing  that  it  will  give  the  Craft  weight  and  influence  in 
the  frontier  Counties  of  the  State. 

I  am  S"".  your  friend 

Richard  Wistar,  Master  No.  2 
Right  Worshipful  Grand  Master. 
June  11,  1783. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  when  three 
dispensations  were  read,  granted  by  the  R.  W.  G. 
Master  in  favor  of  Col  John  Dougherty— Col  David 
Espie  and  Col  Huffnagle  who  being  duly  balloted  for, 
were  approved  and  Initiated. 

This  Lodge  then  Closed  and  a  F.  C.  Lodge  opened, 
when  the  said  three  Brothers  were  passed  to  the  de- 
gree of  P.  C. 

Received  from  Each  of  the  above  £  6—10—0— 
Total  £  19-10.- 

June  14,  i7(55.— Extra  Lodge— opened  in  due  form. 

Present— Bro  Proctor  Master— ten  Members,— Nine 
Visitors 

Transactions.— A.  Masters  Lodge  being  duly  opened 
when  Bros  Dougherty— Espie  &  Huffnagle  were 
raised  to  the  sublime  degree  of  Master  Masons. 

Tuesday,  St.  John's  Day,  June  24,  1783.— K.  M. 
5783. 

Present 


Bro  Proctor, 

W.  M. 

Visitors 

"     Roberts, 

S.  W. 

R.  W.  Grand  Master 
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1730— 3frcema0onri?  in  ipennei^lvania  — X907 


Bro  Ferrall, 

J. 

W.  p  t 

Bro 

Ord 

Pm.  No 

3 

"    Milnor, 

S. 

D. 

ii 

Service 

M'  No 

9 

"    Pennington  J. 

D 

a 

Reid 

No 

3 

«    Eutherford 

a 

Mathews 

P  M  No 

9 

"     Proctor 

a 

Hamilton  W.  M.  No 

3 

"     Wyley 

11 

Christie 

29 

"     McLean 

(( 

Tilton 

3 

"    Young 

ii 
a 
a 

Copeland 

Culbertson 

Stafford 

9 
0 
0 

ii 

Whitehead 

P  M  " 

0 

Transactions.— Ijodige  opened  in  due  form— This 
being  St  John's  day,  agreeable  to  the  By-Laws,  the 
Lodge  proceeded  to  Install  the  officers  chosen  for  the 
ensuing  6  months,  when  Bro  Proctor,  was  installed 
and  saluted  by  the  Brethren 

Bro  Charles  Erdman,  Senior  Warden— Bro.  Geo. 
Hopes,  Junior  Warden,  Bro  Patt''  Ferrall  reappointed 
Treasurer  and  Bro.  John  Leamy  as  Secretary. 

July  14,  i7(S5.— Stated  Lodge,  opened  in  due  form 
—Present  Bro  Proctor,  W.  M.— Wister,  S.  W.  p.  t— 
Hopes,  J.  W.— Milnor,  S.  D.  Pennington  J.  D.— Fer- 
rall, Treas— Leamy,  Sec 'y.— Seven  Members,  and 
Twelve— Visitors. 

Transactions.— 'Bj-'L^iWS  read  and  debated,— no 
inovation  except,  that  summons  should  be  sent  to 
every  member  of  this  Lodge  in  the  City  without  any 
exception. 

A  petition  was  read  in  favor  of  John  Sydenham 
Crapper,  Referred  to  Bros.  Ferrall  and  Roberts. 

July  22,  i7(S5.— Extra  Lodge— Opened  in  due  form. 
Present  Bro.  Proctor  W.  M.     Seven  members— Ten 

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1Iln^er  the  provincial  (SranD  %o^qc 

Visitors,  among  whom  were  Bros  Hamilton,  W.  M. 
of  No  3  and  Service,  W.  M.  of  No  9. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  a 
despeusation  from  the  E.  W.  Grand  Master  was  read, 
in  favor  of  Col  Moses  Eawlings,  balloted  for,  ap- 
proved and  entered. 

A.  E.  Lodge  Closed  F.  C.  opened  when  Bro.  Rawl- 
ings  was  passed  to  the  degree  of  a  F.  C.  and  gave 
thanks.— 

August  11,  ^785.— Stated  Lodge,  opened  in  due 
form. 

Present— Bro.  Rutherford  in  the  Chair.  — Twelve 
members  nineteen  Visitors. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  a 
petition  was  read  from  Mrs.  Catharine  Dean,  widow 
of  our  late  Bro  John  Dean,  praying  the  assistance  of 
this  Lodge  to  enable  Jier  to  enter  into  business  for 
the  support  of  herself  and  Lif ant— Ordered  that  the 
Treasurer  pay  M""^  Dean  y^  Sum  of  Six  pounds. 

Mr  John  Frankford,  balloted  for,  approved,  and 
Entered  John  Sydenham  Crapper  was  then  ballotted 
for  and  black  balled  by  five  members. 

On  application  of  John  Dusseron,  a  well  recomended 
brother,— for  the  sum  of  34^  Dollars,  for  which  he 
offers  a  Commissary's  Note,  Signed  Benj.  Stelle,  for 
69  Dollars;  Ordered  that  the  Treasurer  receive  the 
Note  and  pay  to  Bro  Dusseron  the  said  34|  Dollars. 

September  8,  i7<55.— Stated  Lodge— opened  in  due 
form 

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Present— Bro  Erdman,  S.  W.  in  the  Chair,  nine 
members,  and  Seven,  Visitors. — 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,— Bro  Wil- 
liam von  Worn  having  been  regularly  examined,  and 
found  to  be  an  Ancient  Mason,  was  on  his  request  ad- 
mitted a  Member  of  this  Lodge.  Dues  were  received 
to  the  amount  of  £  19—4—6 

October  13,  iZS^.— Stated  Lodge— Opened  in  due 
form. — 

Present— Proctor.  W.  M.  twelve  members,  and 
Seventeen  visitors 

Transactions.— Kn  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  peti- 
tion were  received  from  Jacob  Gerrard  Koch,  William 
Parker,  and  Capt  Robert  Chambers, 
Bros  Wister   &   Erdman    appointed   a    Committe   on 
Mr  Koch 

"     McElhatton  &  Reeves  appointed  a  Committe  on 
Mr  Parker 

"     Erdman   &   Carson   appointed   a   Committe    on 
Capt  Chambers. 

"     Benj.  Nones  and  John  Parrish  were  at  their  re- 
quest admitted  as  members  of  this  Lodge. 

November  10,  i7(S5.— Stated  Lodge— present— Bro 
Proctor,  W.  M— ten  members.  Eight  visitors. 

Transactions. — An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened.  Mr  Jacob. 
G.  Koch,  was  balloted  for,  approved— Petitions  were 
received  from  Isiah  Bush  and  Venables  Bond— or- 
dered to  ly  on  the  Books. 

By  Virtue  of  a  dispensation  from  the  R  W.  G  M, 

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the  Chevalier  Longchamps,  a  Modem  Mason  was 
balloted  for,  approved  and  Entered— A  F.  C.  Lodge 
being  opened  he  was  passed  to  F.  C— A  Masters 
Lodge  being  opened  he  was  raised  to  the  Sublime 
degree  of  a  M.  M.,  his  being  to  leave  the  City  in  a 
few  days  making  it  proper  to  favor  him  with  this 
expeditious  advancement. 

Ordered  that  a  Master  Masons  Lodge  be  held  here 
on  Friday  evenings  for  the  purpose  of  improvement 
in  the  Craft.— 

Eeceived  Nov  15  1783  from  Pat^  Ferrall  two  pounds  seven 
shillings  for  one  Cord  of  wood  Hawling  &  Sawing  &  one  shil- 
ling and  ten  pence  halfpenny  for  Sweeping  Chimneys. 

WuLiLiAM  Beck 

December  8,  i7<S5.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Proc- 
tor Master— Erdman  S.  W— Bros.  Eutherford— 
Dougherty  Erpy  —  Milnor  —  Nones  —  Von  Worn  — 
Bartram— Ferrall  —  Pennington  —  Roberts— Hartley 
Erwine— Fisher— Tilyer  Evans.— Visiting  Brethren — 
S.  Bush^— S.  Nathan^— Da  Costa— Anderson— Way- 
Jennings- S.  Shober— Eitchie— McCullam— Schivelay 
Jas.  Lee  jr.— Purcell—Derragh— Boyd— Temple. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form, 
when  Mr.  Isaiah  Bush  was  balloted  for  and  approved. 
Mr  Bush  and  J.  G.  Koch  were  then  initiated. 

This  being  the  stated  Lodge  preceeding  St  John's 

"  Solomon  Bush,  Deputy  Grand  Inspector  for  Pennsylvania,  Lodge 
of  Perfection. 
*  Deputy  Grand  Inspector  for  North  Carolina. 
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Day  the  following  Brethren  were  chosen  officers,  viz; 
— Ferrall,  Master— Erdman,  Sen.  Warden— Milnor, 
Jun.  Warden  and  Jere.  Fisher  Treas. 

Ordered  that  the  officers  elect,  be  a  committe  to 
confer  with  the  different  Lodges  of  this  city  respect- 
ing the  propriety  of  having  a  charity  sermon  on  St. 
John's  Day. 

Bill  for  Music  on  St  John's  Day  Dec  27—1783  furnished 
by  William  Hartung 

1  Trumpet  £  1—  2—6 

2  Horns  @  15/        1—10—0 

2  Basoons  @  15/        1-10-0 

3  Clarinets  @  15/         2—  5-0 

Total  £  6—  7—6 


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CHAPTER   XV. 

The  Dawn  of  Peace  and  Prospeeity,   1784-1785. 

N  January  14,  1784,  the  Treaty  of  Peace 
was  finally  ratified  by  the  Executive 
Council  of  Pennsylvania.^  This  act 
was  to  be  officially  celebrated  on  the 
twenty- second  of  January,  but  owing 
to  the  destruction  of  the  triumphal 
arch  and  transparencies  it  was  not  done  until  the 
tenth  of  May  following,  when  the  official  celebration 
and  illumination  took  place.  At  noon  the  High 
Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Philadelphia,  Bro.  Thomas 
Proctor,  a  Past  Master  of  Lodge  No.  2,  attended  by 
the  proper  officers,  made  public  proclamation  of  the 

^  The  first  American  flag  displayed  in  the  Thames,  at  London, 
after  the  peace  of  1783,  was  on  board  the  ship  William  Penn, 
Captain  James  Josiah,  commander,  who  was  a  member  of  Lodge 
No.  2  of  Philadelphia.  His  widow  being  present,  she  there  saw 
the  indignation  of  the  populace  at  the  spectacle.  Thej^  saw  such 
excitement  among  the  people  that  they  so  far  feared  a  mobbing  as 
to  have  had  to  keep  up  a  ^dgilant  watch,  and,  especially  at  night, 
to  guard  against  any  violence.  Mrs.  Josiah,  when  one  lady  expressed 
her  offence  at  seeing  the  flag  and  her  wonder  at  their  presumption 
at  displaying  it,  said :  "  We  win  gold  and  wear  it." — Watson's  "  An- 
nals of  Philadelphia,"  Vol.  II.  (1844),  p.  333. 

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definite  Treaty  of  Peace  concluded  between  America 
and  Great  Britain.  This  proclamation  was  signed 
by  Bro.  John  Dickinson,  president  of  the  Executive 
Council  and  member  of  Lodge  No.  18,  at  Dover, 
Delaware. 

The  general  illumination  of  the  city  and  the  Grand 
Transparencies  bearing  Masonic  and  patriotic  em- 
blems took  place  upon  the  same  evening,  which  hap- 
pened to  be  the  stated  meeting  of  the  Lodge,  and 
according  to  the  minutes,  upon  above  account  was 
"adjourned  until  the  following  Thursday." 

Another  important  event  of  the  year  was  the 
arrival  of  Bro.  Lafayette  in  Philadelphia,  August 
9,  1784,  upon  his  way  to  Mount  Vernon  to  visit  Bro. 
George  Washington,  and  present  him  with  the  Ma- 
sonic apron,  which  the  Marquise  de  Lafayette  had 
embroidered  for  her  husband's  former  commander, 
and  is  now  treasured  in  the  Museum  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Pennsylvania.  Upon  the 
evening  of  Lafayette's  arrival  in  Philadelphia  a 
stated  meeting  of  Lodge  No.  2  was  held,  but  it  does 
not  appear  that  any  official  notice  was  taken  by  the 
Brethren  of  the  Craft  nor  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  of 
the  presence  of  our  illustrious  brother  in  the  city. 

Upon  the  afternoon  of  August  9,  Bro.  Lafayette 
arrived  here  from  New  York.  He  was  met  at  or 
above  Frankford  by  a  large  body  of  citizens  and 
soldiers  who  escorted  him  to  the  city,  where  an  im- 
promptu reception  was  tendered  him  at  the   Coffee 

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WASHINGTON'S    MASONIC    APRON. 

IN    THE    MUSEUM    OF   THE    GRAND    LODGE    F.    &    A.    M.    OF    PENNSYLVANIA.         EMBROIDERED    BY    MADAME    LAFAYETTE 
AND    PRESENTED    BY   GENERAL    LAFAYETTE,    AUGUST,    1784. 


Ebe  Dawn  of  peace  ant)  jprosperiti^ 

House  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Front  and  Market 
Street,  then  kept  by  Bro,  Eleazer  Oswald.  In  the 
evening  he  was  greeted  with  a  grand  illumination  of 
the  city. 

Bro.  Lafayette  remained  in  Philadelphia  until 
August  14,  when  he  took  leave  of  his  friends  and  left 
with  his  precious  gift  for  Mount  Vernon.  He  re- 
mained at  the  home  of  Washington  until  the  end  of 
August,  and  on  the  first  of  September  we  again  learn 
of  his  presence  in  Philadelphia. 

During  Bro.  Lafayette's  sojourn  in  Philadelphia 
Bro.  John  Parke,  a  local  poet  and  member  of  Lodge 
No.  2,  composed  and  published  the  following  ex- 
tempore ode  on  the  arrival  of  Bro.  Lafayette: 

The  irrecovable  decree  is  past 

And  high  Olympus  trembles  at  the  blast, 

Which  Fame  triumphant  bears; 

Thou'rt  free  America!  the  Heavens  resound 

Nations  rejoicing  catch  the  swelling  sound. 

Thou'rt  free — stern  Britian  hears 

A  Prince  to  human  kind  and  Friend, 

to  cause  Tyranies  sway  to  end. 

To  Lafayette  did  say: 
Go,  glory  in  that  envied  name, 
"A  pasport  thro'  the  gates  of  Fame," 

A  Soldier  of  America. 

Another  interesting  historical  event  of  the  year 
1784  was  the  preaching  of  a  charity  sermon  by  Rev. 
William  White  in  Christ  Church  on  St.  John's  Day, 

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December  27,  1784,  before  the  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge, 
upon  which  occasion  Rev.  Dr.  White,  who  was  not  a 
Freemason,  walked  with  the  Brethren  in  procession 
from  the  Lodge  House  to  the  Church.  This  sermon 
was  afterwards  printed  by  Hall  and  Sellers,  a  copy 
of  which  is  in  the  Grand  Lodge  Library.^ 

The  political  and  social  record  of  the  year  1785  is 
mainly  of  that  uneventful  character  which  usually 
accompanies  the  peaceful  development  of  industries 
and  trade.  Masonically  we  have  several  events  of 
interesting  import.  The  first  was  a  determined  effort 
made  to  raise  funds  for  the  purchase  of  the  Free- 
mason's Lodge  in  Lodge  Alley  or  else  the  purchase 
or  building  of  another  for  the  sole  use  of  the  Grand 
and  Subordinate  Lodges.  How  Lodge  No.  2  re- 
sponded to  this  appeal  is  shown  by  the  old  subscrip- 
tion list  which  is  still  extant  in  our  Archives.  How 
all  efforts  made  to  secure  the  old  Lodge  House  dedi- 
cated in  1755  failed  is  also  a  matter  of  Masonic 
history. 

^  Grand  Lodge,  State  of  Pennsylvania,  December  28,  1784.  At 
an  annual  Communication  of  the  jB.  W.  Grand  Master,  and  other 
Grand  Officers  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Society  of  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  and  the  other  Officers  of  the  several  Lodges  under 
their  jurisdiction, 

Unanimously  Resolved,  That  the  Thanks  of  this  Society  be  given 
to  the  Reverend  William  White,  D.D.  for  his  judicious  discourse, 
delivered  in  Christ-Church,  at  their  request,  on  the  late  Anniversary 
of  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  and  that  he  be  requested  to  furnish  a 
Copy  for  Publication. 

By  order  of  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master 

Joseph  Howell,  jun.  G.  Sec'ry. 
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^be  2)a\vn  of  peace  ant)  proeperttiP 

One  of  the  interesting  events  of  the  year  1785  was 
the  '' Consecration  of  the  Sublime  Lodge  of  Perfec- 
tion." This  was  made  an  event  of  considerable 
ceremony  which  included  a  public  Masonic  procession, 
the  dedication  of  the  "New  Lodge"  in  Black  Horse 
Alley  and  ended  with  a  bibulous  collation  at  the  City 
Tavern  where  toasts  were  drank  to  Brother  Washing- 
ton, Franklin  and  the  King  of  Prussia. 

All  efforts  having  failed,  in  regard  to  retaining  the 
Freemason's  Lodge  in  Lodge  Alley  for  the  uses  of  the 
Brethren,  Brother  Joseph  Dean,^  a  member  of  Lodge 
No.  2,  and  later  Senior  Grand  Warden,  at  an  Extra 
Grand  Lodge  held  October  27,  1785,  offered  to  present 
a  lot  of  ground  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  provided  they 
would  build  upon  the  same.      This  lot  was  situated 

'  Joseph  Dean,  son  of  Rev.  William  Dean,  a  Presbyterian  clergy- 
man, was  born  August  10,  1738,  at  Ballymenagh,  County  Antrim, 
Ireland.  He  became  an  importing  merchant  in  Philadelphia,  was 
a  signer  of  the  Non-importation  Resolutions,  at  outset  of  Revolution 
advanced  the  General  Government  $60,000,  which  he  lost  eventually. 
In  December,  1776,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Assembly",  a  member 
of  Committee  of  Safety,  and,  on  organization  of  the  Board  of  War, 
a  member  of  that  body.  In  January,  1781,  the  Supreme  Executive 
Council  appointed  him  one  of  the  auditors  "  to  settle  and  adjust  the 
accounts  of  the  troops  of  the  State,  in  the  service  of  the  United 
States,"  and  in  October  following  Warden  of  the  port  of  Phila- 
delphia. In  1790  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Auctioneers  of  the 
city.  Dean  Street  (now  Camac)  from  Walnut  to  Lombard  between 
12th  and  13th  takes  its  name  from  him.  He  died  September  11, 
1795.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Moravian  Church  and  was  buried 
in  their  old  ground,  Franklin  and  Vine  Sts.  He  was  married  twice : 
First,  Francisea  McCracken,  had  two  daughters;  second,  Hannah 
Boyd,  had  five  sons  and  one  daughter.  Portrait  by  C.  W.  Peale 
is  in  possession  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

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at  the  southwest  corner  of  Twelfth  and  Walnut  Street, 
containing  70  feet  in  front  and  a  depth  on  Walnut 
Street  of  124  feet.  Although  the  situation  was  at  that 
time  far  out  of  town,  the  Grand  Lodge  thankfully  re- 
ceived the  offer:  viz. 

"Unanimously  Agreed,  That  the  Thanks  of  this  Grand 
Lodge  be  given  to  our  worthy  Brother  Joseph  Dean,  and  that 
that  R.  W.  D.  G.  Master,  Brother  Ball  and  Brother  Few  be 
appointed  to  wait  on  Brother  Dean,  acquaint  him  they  will 
accept  the  same  and  assure  him  that  they  are  perfectly 
sensible  of  his  generous  offer. 

"Agreed,  That  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master,  D.  G.  Master 
B"-  Humphreys,  Smith  and  Few  be  appointed  Trustees  to 
receive  from  B""  Joseph  Dean  a  Deed  in  Trust  for  the  use  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania." 

At  the  Grand  Communication  held  on  St.  John's 
Day,  December,  1785,  the  deed  for  this  lot  was  pre- 
sented to  the  Grand  Lodge,  the  consideration  being 
ten  shillings  and  a  yearly  rental  of  one  acorn  to  be 
paid  on  every  Saint  John  the  Evangelists  Day  for- 
ever, if  lawfully  demanded  by  the  said  Joseph  Dean. 

At  this  meeting  a  deed  or  declaration  of  trust  was 
also  executed  to  Bro.  Dean  in  the  presence  of  the 
Grand  Officers. 

Following  is  an  abstract  of  the  Deed  from  Bro. 
Joseph  Dean  to  the  Grand  Lodge;  as  recorded 
February  4,  1786,  at  Philadelphia,  in  Deed  Book  D, 
No.  16,  page  29. 

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JOESPH    DEAN. 

BORN    IRELAND,    AUGUST    19.    1738;      DIED    PHILADELPHIA,    SEPTEMBER    11,    1795. 


Ebe  2)a\vn  of  peace  ant)  prosperity 

This  Indenture  made  the  (13*^^)  day  of  (December)  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty  five 
Between  Joseph  Dean  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia  in  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania,  Merchant  and  Hannah  his  wife  of 
the  one  part  and  William  Adcock,  William  Ball,  Alexander 
Rutherford,  Jonathan  Bayard  Smith,  Ashton  Humphreys  and 
Joseph  Few  all  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia.  Gentlemen  of 
the  other  part  Witnesseth  that  the  said  Joseph  Dean  and 
Hannah  his  wife  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  ten  shillings 
current  money  of  Pennsylvania  unto  them  in  hand  well  and 
truly  paid  by  the  said  William  Adcock,  et  al.,  at  and  before 
the  sealing  and  delivery  hereof  the  receipt  whereof  they  do 
hereby  acknowledge  and  for  divers  other  good  causes  and 
considerations  them  hereunto  especially  moving  have  granted, 
bargained  sold  aliened  enfeoffed  released  and  confirmed  and 
by  these  presents  do  grant  bargain  sell  alien  enfeoff  release 
and  confirm  unto  the  said  William  Adcock,  et  al.,  and  to  their 
heirs  and  assigns  a  certain  lot  or  piece  of  ground  situate  on 
the  south  side  of  Walnut  Street  and  the  west  side  of  12*^^ 
Street  in  the  said  City  of  Philadelphia.  Containing  in 
breadth  on  12^''  Street,  aforesaid,  70  feet  and  in  depth  on 
Walnut  St.  aforesaid  124  feet.  (Bounded  Northward  by 
Walnut  St.,  aforesaid,  westward  and  southward  by  other 
ground  of  said  Joseph  Dean  and  eastward  by  12"^  St.  afore- 
said.) ...  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  piece  of  ground 
hereditaments  and  premises  hereby  granted  or  mentioned  or 
intended  so  to  be  with  the  appurtenances  .  .  .  forever  upon 
condition  and  to  the  end  intent  and  purpose  that  they  the 
said  W™  Adcock  et  al  their  heirs  and  assigns  Do  and  shall 
within  the  space  of  three  (3)  years  from  the  date  hereof 
build  or  cause  to  be  erected  and  built  upon  the  said  lot  or 
piece  of  ground  hereby  granted  a  suitable  and  convenient 

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house  to  be  stiled  and  called  the  Grand  Lodge  House  of  Penna. 
for  the  accommodation  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Penna. 
Whereof  the  said  "William  Adcock,  Esq.  is  at  present  Grand 
Master  and  of  the  several  Lodges  of  Free  and  Accepted 
Ancient  York  Masons  in  the  said  state  of  Penna.  under  the 
Jurisdiction  of  the  said  Grand  Lodge  and  none  other. 
Yielding  and  paying  thereunto  the  said  Joseph  Dean  his 
heirs  and  assigns  the  yearly  rent  of  one  acorn  on  every  Saint 
John  the  Evangelists  day  in  every  year  for  ever  hereafter  if 
the  same  shall  be  lawfuly  demanded  and  the  said  Joseph  Dean 
for  himself  his  heirs  executors  and  administrators  doth  hereby 
covenant  promise  grant  and  agree  .  .  .  that  he  the  said 
Joseph  Dean  his  heirs  and  assigns  shall  and  will  upon  the 
selling  or  granting  of  any  lots  or  pieces  of  ground  next  ad- 
joining to  the  said  lot  or  piece  of  ground  hereby  granted  to 
any  person  or  persons  whatsoever  contract  and  agree  to  and 
with  such  person  or  persons  not  to  make  or  open  or  cause  to 
be  made  or  opened  any  windows  or  lights  in  any  buildings 
which  may  be  erected  upon  such  adjacent  lots  fronting  or 
looking  upon  the  said  lot  or  piece  of  ground  hereby  granted 
on  any  side  thereof.  In  witness  whereof  the  said  parties  to 
these  presents  have  interchangeably  set  their  hands  and  seals 
hereunto  the  day  and  year  first  above  written. 
Sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  us 
William  Kidde  Joseph  Dean       [seal] 

Seth  Willis  Hannah  Dean     [seal] 

Efforts  v^ere  made  to  receive  subscriptions  for 
building  a  house  upon  the  lot  at  Twelfth  and  Walnut 
Streets,  but  owing  to  the  financial  depression  and  the 
distance  from  the  city,  but  few   subscriptions  were 

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received.     At  the  Grand  Lodge  held  January  21,  1788, 
it  was  ordered 

' '  That  the  several  Lodges  under  this  Jurisdiction  who  have 
appointed  Committees  to  receive  Subscriptions  for  Building 
a  House  upon  the  Lot  of  Ground  in  this  City,  given  by 
Brother  Joseph  Dean,  return  to  the  Grand  L.  at  their  next 
quarterly  Comm°-  an  account  of  what  monies  have  been  re- 
ceived for  that  purpose,  or  what  Subscriptions  have  been 
made,  and  the  Sec^  is  desired  to  give  them  notice  thereof. 
Ordered  further,  that  Brothers  Williams  and  Few,  who  are 
appointed  a  Committee  for  that  purpose,  furnish  a  plan 
for  the  Building  at  the  next  quarterly  Communication  with 
the  expense  thereof. ' ' 

At  the  communication  June  16,  1788,  it  was  ordered 

"That  a  Committe  be  appointed  to  devise  Measures  for 
erecting  a  Building  on  the  Lot  of  Ground  given  by  Bro. 
Dean." 

No  report  seems  to  have  been  made  by  this  com- 
mittee. In  the  meantime  Bro.  Dean  fell  into  financial 
difficulty  and  became  a  bankrupt,  and  the  commis- 
sioners seized  this  lot,  as  the  conditions  of  the  deed 
had  not  been  complied  with,  although  it  is  believed 
that  a  temporary  structure  was  erected  upon  the 
lot.  On  November  10,  1791,  the  Commissioners  of 
Bankruptcy  sold  the  lot  to  John  E.  Smith,  viz  (re- 
corded in  Deed  Book  I  C,  No.  1,  page  236) : 

"The  conditions  expressed  in  the  deed  to  William  Adcock 
etal  not  having  been  complied  therewith  and  doubts  having 

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arisen  respecting  the  validity  of  the  said  conveyance  in  conse- 
quence wherof  the  said  John  Wharton  etal  at  public  Auction 
or  vendue  had  at  the  Merchants  Coffee  House  in  the  said  City 
of  Philadelphia  on  the  24''»  day  of  August,  1791,  sold  the  lot 
or  peice  of  ground  to  John  R.  Smith." 

In  the  following  year,  1792,  the  Grand  Lodge  re- 
covered the  lot  for  four  pounds  five  shillings,  without 
any  conditions.      Following  is  the  record: 

Feby.  5,  1792. 

John  R.  Smith 

to 

Jonathan  Bayard  Smith,  etal. 

Recorded  in  Deed  Book  I  C,  N°  1,  page  238. 

Declaration  of  Trust. 

Jonathan  Bayard  Smith,  etal. 

Dated  June  25,'  1792. 

Recorded  in  Deed  Book  I  C,  No.  1,  page  239. 

Bro.  Joseph  Dean  died  September  11,  1795,  leaving 
his  widow  in  financial  straits.  Some  years  later  her 
situation  was  brought  to  the  attention  of  the  Grand 
Lodge. 

At  the  Communication  held  March  4,  1799 : 

"A  Motion  was  made  by  the  R.  W.  G.  Master,  and  Sec- 
onded, That  the  Income  of  the  Lot  of  Ground,  presented  to 
this  Grand  Lodge  by  our  late  Bro""  Joseph  Dean,  should  be 
vested  in  Bro  Dean's  Widow  during  the  Term  of  her  Natural 
Life,  and  on  the  question  being  taken,  it  was  unanimously 
agreed  to,  and  the  R.  W.  G.  M.,  the  R.  W.  D.  G.  M.  and  Bro"" 
Samuel  Israel  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  carry  the  same 

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into  effect  in  such  manner  as  shall  appear  to  them  to  be  most 
advantageous  to  Bro'"  Dean's  Widow,  and 

''On  Motion,  Resolved,  That  the  Standing  Committee  of 
Charity  do  consider  the  particular  situation  of  said  Widow, 
and  pay  due  respect  to  the  same." 

At  the  June  meeting  the  following  report  was  made : 

"The  R.  W.  Grand  Master,  (who  together  with  the  R.  W. 
Deputy  Grand  Master  had  been  appointed  a  Committee  to 
present  the  above-mentioned  sum  of  D^-  25  to  Bro''  Deans 
Widow,)  Reported,  that  the  R.  W.  D.  G.  M.  and  himself  had 
waited  on  M""^-  Dean  with  the  same;  That  she  thank 'd  the 
Brethren  for  the  attention  paid  to  her  and  inform 'd  them 
that  there  had  been  a  time  when  her  situation  was  such  that 
the  same  would  have  been  of  great  service  to  her,  but  that 
she  now  found  herself  in  better  circumstances,  that  she  had 
no  doubt  but  the  Brethren  had  many  objects  which  stood  in 
greater  need  of  it  than  she  did  at  present,  and  therefore  very 
politely  declined  receiving  it. ' ' 

Finally  when  funds  were  needed  for  the  new  hall 
erected  in  Chestnut  Street,  the  Legislature  was  peti- 
tioned for  permission  to  sell  the  same,  the  considera- 
tion being  two  thousand  dollars: 

Jonathan  Bayard  Smith,  Gavin  Hamilton  and  Peter  Le 
Barbier  Duplessis,  having  received  authority  to  sell  a  certain 
lot  or  piece  of  ground  at  the  S.  W.  Cor.  of  12'*'  and  Walnut 
St.,  under  an  Act  of  the  Assembly  passed  the  23''^  day  of 
February,  1809  (P.  L.  Chap  VVI  p  22),  sold  the  property 
to  Edward  Shippen  Burd  March  23 — 1809  for  a  Consideration 

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of  Two  Thousand  Dollars. — This  Conveyance  is  recorded  at 
Philadelphia  in  Deed  Book  I.  C.  No.  1,  page  240. 

There  was  no  building  upon  the  property  at  the  time  of  sale. 

Minute  Book  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

January  2,  i7<94.— Extra  Lodge— Present  Bro.  Proc- 
tor Master— fifteen  Members,  and  Eight  Visitors:— 
viz  "William  Rodgers— H.  D.  Purcell— F.  White— Mc- 
Cullam— Pugh— Craddock— W"     Jackson— Boyd. 

Transactions.— Ajq.  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  in  due 
form,  and  closed— Masters  Lodge  opened— when  the 
following  Brethren  were  installed  according  to  An- 
cient Usage:  Viz:— 

Bro.  Pat.  Ferrall,  Master 
"     Charles  Erdman,  S.  W 
"     William  Milnor  J.  W 
''     J.  William  Von  Worn,  Secretary 

The  Antient  Customary  Congratulations  then 
passed— Lodge  Closed— an  E.  A.  opened,  when  by 
Virtue  of  a  Dispensation  of  the  R.  W.  Gr.  M.  Mr 
George  Darvill  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  en- 
tered. 

A  Petition  from  Dr.  H.  Martin  was  read,  and 
ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books.— 

January  12,  i7S4.— Stated  Lodge— Members,  present 
The— W.  M— S.  W— J.  W— Bros  Limuel  Savage— 
Thos  Rice— Jno.  Jarvis— Edw.  Evans— Benj.  Nones 
—Hartley  and  Isaiah  Bush— Visitors,  G.  Hamilton- 
Moses  Cohen— 

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^be  H)awn  of  peace  auD  prosperitip 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form 
The  W.  M.  laid  before  the  Lodge  an  order,  on  the  last 
Treasurer  of  this  Lodge,  sign'd  Thos  Proctor,  in 
favor  of  the  Grand  Lodge  for  the  sum  of  £  15—0—0 
as  also  two  receipts  for  the  payments  of  said  sum. 
At  same  time  the  W.  M.  informed  the  Lodge  that  he 
thought  in  his  opinion  that  Said  Order  &  Receipts 
should  be  entered  into  the  Minutes  of  the  Night.— The 
members  present  were  of  the  same  Opinion,  for  fear 
they  should  be  lost  or  mislaid. 

Philadelphia,  14  July  1783 
"  Please  to  pay  M""  Charles  Young  G^  Treas""  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  fifteen  Pounds  for  a 
sum  directed  by  Lodge  No  2.  to  be  paid  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  in  lieu  of  all  arears  to  a  certain  day  as  is 
recorded  in  their  Minutes  &  Oblige  sir 
To  B^  Paf^  Ferrall       )    y-"  W  Serv* 
Treas''  of  Lodge  N  2    J        Thos  Proctor 
Receipts  on  the 
Back  of  said  Order 
Rec*^  July  14  1783  Twenty  Dollars  in  Ace*  the  within 
order 

Cha"  Young  G^  Treas^ 
Rec^  9  Aug*  83  the  Ballance 

The  Petitions  of  Mess  John  Matt""  Otto— Richard 
Allison  and  Geo.  Chandler,  were  read— and  ordered 
to  lie  on  the  Books.  Referred  to  Bros  Hartley  & 
Pennington  Bro  Moses  Cohen,  after  being  regularly 

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examined,  was  introduced  as  an  Ancient  Master- 
Mason— Lodge  closed  a  F.  C.  opened,  when  Bro 
Isaiah  Bush  was  passed  to  a  F.  C,  Bro  Erdman  S.  W. 
pray'd  the  indulgence  of  the  Lodge  to  withdraw  (his 
being  engaged  on  earnest  business)  and  with  consent 
laid  down  his  Jewel,  for  the  night.  Bro  Milnor,  J. 
W.  fill'd  his  place,  and  Bro  Pennington,  by  desire  of 
the  Worshipful  fills  that  of  the  J.  W. 

February  9,  1784.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro 
Pat.  Ferrall  W.  M— Thirteen  members— four  visitors: 
—Bro  S.  Bush— Jas.  De  La  Plaine— P.  Wadman— 
Jno  Lawson  all  1'*  time. 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  open'd  in  due  form, 
when  a  letter  from  Lodge  No  4,  directed  to  the  W.  M. 


^^^^'^j^^ 


was  read,  which  was  in  words  following  "  Brother, 
I  am  order 'd  by  the  W.  M.  of  Lodge  No  4  to  acquaint 
your  Body,  that  a  certain  W.  A.  Bowles  petitioned 
our  Lodge  and  was  rejected  by  Eleven  Black  balls.— 
Jno.  Henderson  Sec'y.      'Dec.  25,  1783. 

Petitions  were  received  from  Mess  John  Salsbery 
and  Thos.  Barth'^  Bowen— ordered  to  lie  on  the  books. 

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Bro.  Moses  Cohen  petitioned  this  Lodge  to  become 
a  Member,  he  was  unanimously  accepted. 

Mess.  John  Matt.  Otto— Rich.  Allison  and  Geo 
Chandler  were  balloted  for  and  approved.  Lodge 
closed,  and  a  F.  C.  opened  in  due  form,  when  Bro 
J.  Gr.  Koch  was  passed  to  a  F.  C.  Lodge  closed  and 
a  Masters  Lodge  opened  when  Bro  Isaiah  Bush  was 
raised  to  the  Sublime  degree. 

February  21,  i754.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  Bro 
Pat.  Ferrall  W.  M— Eleven  Members— Six  Visitors: 
—Bros  Jas.  De  la  plaine  No  13— Pugh— Jno.  Lawson 
No  4— Piersol— W.  M  of  No  4— J.  Henderson,  Sec'y 
No  4.— McFarson. 

Transactions.— An  A.  E.  Lodge  opened  in  due 
form,  when  Capt  John  Rice,  approved  April  9'^,  1782 
was  Initiated. 

March  8,  17(94.- Stated  Lodge— Opened  in  due  form. 
Present— Bro  Pat.  Ferrall  M.  W.  Ten  Members, 
four  Visitors. 

Transactions.— Ani  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  when  Mess. 
John  Salsbery  and  Thos.  Bart.  Bowen  were  balloted 
for  and  approved.  Mess.  Rich.  Allison,  and  Geo. 
Chandler,  approved  last  Stated  Night  and  John  Sals- 
bery were  then  initiated 

A  petition  was  received  from  Fredk.  W"  Starman— 
ordered  to  lie  on  the  books.  Lodge  closed,  F.  C. 
opened  when  Bros  John  Frankford  and  Geo  Darvil 
were  passed  to  F.  C. 

Ordered   that   the   Secretary  purchase   six   sconces 

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and  other  articles  for  the  use  of  the  Lodge;  and  de- 
liver them  to  the  Tyler  with  a  strict  charge  to  take 
care  of  them. 

A.  Masters  Lodge  opened,  when  Bro  John  Eice  was 
raised  to  the  Sublime  Degree.  Paid  Bro  Geise's  Bill 
for  Refreshment  £  2—14—0  Lodge  closed  in  Har- 
mony at  11.  Oclock. 

March  22,  i7<94.— Extra  Lodge— Present  Bro.  Pat 
Ferrall  W.  M— thirteen  Members,  Jos.  Howell  jr 
Visitor. 

Transactions.— an  E.  A.  Lodge  opened— A  dispen- 
sation from  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  in  favor  of  Solomon 
Etting  was  read,  he  was  ballotted  for,  approved  and 
entered.  A  Masters  Lodge  then  opened,  when  Bros 
John  Frankford  and  Geo  Darvill  were  raised  to  the 
sublime  degree. 

March  27,  1784:.— Extra  Lodge— Fresent  Bro  Pat 
Ferrall  W.  M.     Six  members— 

Transactions.— A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bro 
Etting  was  passed  to  F.  C.  A  Masters  Lodge  opened 
in  due  form,  and  the  aforesaid  Bro.  was  raised  to  the 
Sublime  Degree  Our  Brother  being  to  leave  this  city 
in  a  few  days,  was  by  his  desire  favored  with  this 
expeditious  advancement. 

April  12,  1784.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  The  Wor- 
shipful P.  Ferrall,— Six  Members,  Praise  Wadman,  a 
Visitor  An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when 
Bro  Praise  Wadman  i^resented  a  petition  for  Member- 

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ST.    PAUL'S    PROTESTANT    EPISCOPAL   CHURCH. 

THIRD   STREET    BELOW   WALNUT,   EAST   SIDE. 


Xlbc  Dawn  of  peace  anD  prosperity 


SERMON 

DELIVERED    IN 

St.    P  a  U  L's    church. 

On  Saturday,   December  27,  1783, 
THE    ANNIVERSARY    OF 

St.  JOHN  THE  Evangelist  5 
TFoR  THE  Benefit  of  the  POOR] 

BY    DIRECTION,    AND    IN    THE    PRESENCE    OF, 

THE  ANCIENT  AND  HONORABLE  FRATERNITY 

0  F 

Free  and  Accepted  MASONS 

Of  the  SEVERAL  LODGES 

1  N 

PHILADELPHIA, 
By    SAMUEL    M  A  G  A  W,    D.  D. 

VieE-PROvosT  OF  THE   UNIVERSITY  op 
PENNSriyANJul. 

Philadelphia:    Printed  by  HALL  and  SELLERS. 


IV1,DCC,LXXXIV. 

Title  Page  of  Eev.  Dr.  Magaw  's  Sermon.     Original  in  Grand  Lodge 

Library.  67 


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To  His  Excellency 

The  Chevalier    de   LUZERNE, 

Minister  Plenipotentiary 

FROM  THE  Court  of  FRANCE 

TO  THE  United  States  of  AMERICAj 

A  Representative 
of  the  most  illustrious  Monarch, 

A  Citizen 
of  the  most  accomplished  Nation* 

AND    resident 

AMONG  the  Freest  People 

UPON  Earth  J 

IN  Testimony 

OF  the  highest  Regard 

for  his  Public  Character, 

supported  with  becoming  Dignity  ; 

and  his  Private, 

ADORNED  with 

Hospitality  an©  Elegance  j 

THE  BRETHREN  have  directed 

that  the 

FOLLOWING    SERMON 

SHOULD    BE, 

WITH  ALL  RESPECTFUL  CONSIDERATION. 

INSCRIBED. 

Dedication  of  Dr.  Magaw's  Sermon. 


Zbc  H)a\\)n  of  peace  ant)  iprospertti^ 

ship,  and  was  elected.  Mr.  Starman,  was  balloted  for, 
approved  and  entered. 

The  worshipful  informed  the  Lodge  that  the  Grand 
Lodge  has  made  a  proposal  of  building  a  house  by 
subscription,  for  the  use  of  the  fraternity.— Bros. 
Erdman  and  Milnor  were  appointed  a  Committe  to 
confer  with  the  other  Lodges  on  a  mode  for  raising 
said  Subscription.* 

The  worshipful  also  informed  the  lodge,  that  Bro 
Howell  G.  Sec'y,  had  waited  on  him  and  acquainted 
him  that,  agreeable  to  the  order  from  the  Grand 
Lodge,  The  Reverent  M'"  Magaw's  Sermon,  preached 
in  St  Paul's  Church  last  St  John's  Day,  was  pub- 
lished; and  desired  to  know  how  many  our  lodge 
would  want.— Bro  Erdman  proposed  taken  of  fifty 
copies  of  said  sermon  on  his  own  account,  that  the 
Brethren  may  be  supplied  with  them 

Bro  Ch.  De  Longchamp,^  by  a  Verbal  Petition,  pro- 
posed Mr  Dennis  Lennon— ordered  to  lie  on  the  books. 

Bro  Von  Worn  delivered  an  account  for  sundries 
which  were  ordered  the  last  stated  night,  to  be  bought 

*  Original  list  of  subscribers  in  Grand  Lodge  Library. 

^  Bro.  Charles  Julian  Longchamps,  at  this  time,  was  the  central 
figure  in  a  romantic  episode.  He  had  been  an  officer  in  the  French 
cavalry,  came  to  Philadelphia  and  married  a  young  Quakeress,  whose 
friends  disapproved  of  the  match,  and  a  series  of  annoyances  to 
Bro.  Longchamps  resulted,  during  one  of  which  he  struck  the  secre- 
tary of  the  French  Legation.  The  secretary  complained  to  Con- 
gress, and  the  matter  became  an  international  one,  which  ended  by 
Bro.  Longchamps  being  sentenced  to  two  years  imprisonment  and 
to  pay  a  fine  of  100  French  crowns  and  bail  to  keep  the  peace  for 
seven  years  in  the  sum  of  2,000  pounds. 

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for  the  use  of  the  Lodge,  amounting  to  40  Shillings. 

April  15,  i7(94.— Extra  Lodge.  Present— Bro.  Patk 
Ferrall  W  M— Nine  Members,  and  Bro  John  Coats  P. 
D.  G.  M. 

Au.  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form— Lodge  closed. 
F.  C.  opened  when  Bros.  Eeiley— Salsbery  and  Star- 
man  were  passed  to  Degree  of  F.  C. 

May  10,  5754.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  Worship- 
full  Patk.  Ferrall,  Bros.  Milnor  and  Pennington. 

There  being  but  a  very  few  members  present, 
owing  to  the  Illumination  for  the  Definity  Treaty, 
this  Lodge  was  adjourned  to  Thursday  evening  at 
Seven  0 'Clock,  when  its  hoped  every  Brother  will 
attend. 

1784             Bills  of  HaU  &  SeUers— 
March  11     To  folding  «&  stitching  500  Mason  Ser- 
mons £  1 — 5 — 0 
Apr      30     To  Paper  &  printing  500  Copies  Dr 

Magaw's  Sermon  @  4d.  each  8 — 6 — 8 

May  13,  57S4.— Adjourned  Lodge— Present- 
Members 


Bro  Pat.  Ferrall    W.  M.       Bro  Ed.  Evans 


Chas.  ErdmanS.  W 
W""  Milnor       J.  W. 
W"  Keeler       S.  D  pt 
J.  Pennington  J.  D.  pt 
P.  Wadman 
J.  Salsbery 


Jno.  Reily 

J.  Leamy 

R.  Allison 

F.  W.  Starman 

Chev.  De  Longchamps 

Elhatton. 


Visitors 
Bro  W"  Tapp  P.  M.  No  2  New  York.  Bro  Mat"  Whitehead 

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An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Mr 
Dennis  Lennom  was  balloted  for,  and  black-balled 
by  every  member  present.  Ordered  that  the  Secre- 
tary report  the  same  to  the  different  Lodges  in  this 
City. 

Mr  Thos,  Bart.  Bowen,  approved  Mar.  8.  1784  was 
Entered. 

Lodge  Closed— F.  C.  opened  when  Bro.  Allison  was 
passed  to  F.  C— Lodge  Closed,  a  Masters  opened, 
when  Bro  Eeily  was  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree. 

May  20,  1754.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro  P. 
Ferrall  W.  M— ten  Members— Six  Visitors. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— By  virtue  of 
a  dispensation  from  the  R.  W.  Gr.  Master,  Mr  J.  L. 
Dusautoy  Lecossoy,  a  Modern  Mason,  was  balloted 
for,  approved  and  entered 

Lodge  Closed.— F.  C.  opened,  when  aforesaid  Bro 
was  passed  to  F.  C— Lodge  Closed,  a  Masters  opened, 
when  aforesaid  Bro.  was  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree. 

June  14,  57(S4.— Stated  Lodge.      Present 


The  Worshipful  M 

ast( 

5r          Bro  Moses  Cohen 

Bro  Chas  Erdman, 

S. 

W.        "     Jno  Salisbury 

"     W"  MUnor 

J  W          "     Praise  Wadman 

"     Is"  Pennhagton 

S. 

D          «     I.  Bush 

"     Benj.  Nones 

J. 

D           "     Jno.  Learning 

"     Rich.  Allison 

"     F.  W.  Starman 

"    Rice 

Visitors 

Bro  Shober 

Bro  Walter  Bourk 

"     Tapp 

P  M  from  S*  Croix 
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Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  form. 

The  Petition  of  Mr  Peter  Hadingran,  was  pre- 
sented, by  the  W.  M.  craving  our  Charitable  assistance. 
Bros  Erdman  and  Pennington  were  appointed  a  Com- 
mitte  to  examine  said  Petitioner  and  if  found  worthy 
to  assist  him  with  six  pounds  out  of  the  Treasure. 

The  Worshipful  laid  before  the  Lodge  an  Ace* 
from  Joseph  Rhoads  against  this  Lodge,  Ordered  that 
the  Secretary  examine  the  Minutes  of  1769  and  see 
what  is  there  mentioned  concerning  said  Ace*  and 
report  the  next  Stated  night 

Bro  Moses  Cohen  verballey  petitioned  the  Lodge  for 
the  Initiation  of  M""  Ashton  Humphres,  if  found 
worthy:  ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books. — 

This  being  our  stated  night  preceeding  S*  John's 
Day  we  proceeded  to  the  election  of  officers  for  the 
ensuing  Six  Months,  and  were  elected  as  follows, 
viz:— 

Bros.  Chas.  Erdman,  Master,— W"*  Milnor,  S.  W. 
Isa.  Pennington,  J.  W.  W.  Von  Worn,  re-elected 
Secretary;  John  Leamy,  Treasurer— Benj.  Nones,  S. 
D.— Isaiah  Bush,  J.  D  and  Bro.  Cohen  Steward.— 
Bros  Pennington,  Leamy  and  Von  Worn  were  ap- 
pointed a  Committe  for  settling  the  last  Treasurer's 
Acc*^ 

Eeceived  Cash  for  Seven  Constitution  Books,  and 
for  refreshment  22/6 

June  15,  57(94.— Extra  Lodge— Present,  The  Wor- 
shipful Master,  Six  members. 

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Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  form; 
and  by  Virtue  of  a  Dispensation  from  the  R.  W.  Gr.  M. 
Capt  Donald  McDonald  was  balloted  for  and  found 
worthy,  and  entered.  Lodge  Closed.  F.  C.  Opened, 
when  said  Brother  was  passed  to  F.  C. 

Lodge  Closed,  A  Masters  Lodge  opened  in  due  form, 
when  said  Brother  and  Bro  John  Salsbery  were 
raised  to  the  Sublime  Degree. 

June  21,  57(94.— Extra  Lodge— Present,— The  Wor- 
shipful Master— Twelve  Members,  and  W""  Tapp, 
P.  M.  of  N°  2.  New  York 

Transactions.— K-n.  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  and  by 
virtue  of  two  Dispensations  from  the  R.  W.  Gr.  M.  in 
favor  of  Ashton  Humphres  and  Haym  Solomon,  were 
balloted  for,  approved  and  Entered. 

Bros.  Erdman  and  Pennington,  reported  that  they 
had  waited  on  Mr  Hadingran,  and  found  him  an  ob- 
ject of  Charity,  ordered  that  said  Sum  be  presented 
him.     Lodge  closed 

A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bros  Chandler  and 
Bowen  were  passed  to  F.  C.     Lodge  closed 

A  Masters  Lodge  opened,  and  Bros.  Starman— 
Allison  and  Chandler,  were  raised  to  the  sublime 
degree. 

June  23,  5784.— Extra  Lodge.  Present,  the  Wor- 
shipful Master,  and  Seven  Members.— 

Transactions.— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened.  By  Virtue 
of  a  Dispensation  from  the  R.  W.  G.  Master,  Capt 
Joseph    Walker,    was    balloted    for,    and    approved. 

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When  lie  and  Haym  Solomon  were  Entered.  Lodge 
closed 

A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  in  form,  when  Bros.  Hum- 
phreys,—"Walker  and  Solomon  were  passed  to  the 
degree  of  F.  C. 

Lodge  closed  in  harmony  at  10  0 'Clock— 

St.  John's  Day,  June  24,  5784.-^0  entry— a  blank 
page. 

Ju7ie  28,  57S4.— Extra  Lodge.  Present— The  W. 
M.  Chas.  Erdman— Nine  Members. 

A  Masters  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Bros 
Thos.  B  Bowen,  and  Joseph  Walker,  were  raised  to 
the  Sublime  Degree  of  Master  Masons;  Returned  and 
gave  Thanks. 

July  12,  5754.— Stated  Lodge.— Present— Bro  Chas 
Erdman  W.  M.— W°  Melnor,  S.  W.  Isc.  Pennington, 
J.  W.— P.  Wadman— A.  Humphreys— Jno  Salsbery.— 
J.  L.  Dusautoy— T.  B.  Bowen— Jno  Leamy— M. 
Cohen 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  Bro  von  Worn  informed 
the  Lodge  that  he  had  examined  the  Minutes  of  1769, 
and  did  not  find  anything  mentioned  of  any  work 
done  by  Mr  Joseph  Rhoads  for  the  Lodge.  Ordered 
that  the  Secretary  shall  wait  on  the  Widow  or  Ex- 
ecutor, of  Said  J.  Rhoads,  and  inform  her,  or  him, 
that  it  was  the  sense  of  the  Lodge  that  said  ace*  was 
not  just,  and  to  return  the  same. 

A  Masters  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Bro 
Asheton  Humphreys,  was  raised  to  the  Sublime  De- 
gree.— 

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Paid  Bro.  Cohen  his  bill  for  refreshment  20/10— 

Paid  Mess.  Hall  &  Sellers  Fifty  Shillings  for  print- 
ing 1000  Summons— Bro.  Jno  Leamy  was  this  Even- 
ing installed  Treasurer  of  this  Lodge  for  the  ensuing 
six  months. 

August  9,  ^754.  — Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  W" 
Milnor  Master  p.  t.— Isaac  Pennington  S  W— Benj. 
Nones  J.  W.  p  t.  I  Bush  S.  D-J.  Salsbery,  J.  D.- 
A.  Humphreys— F.  W.  Starman— Chas  Jones— H. 
Solomon— S.  Etting— M.  Cohen— P.  Wadman— A. 
Roberts- Leamy — Jarvis 

Visitors :— Robt  Jones— Singleton— Powers. 

An  A.  E.  Lodge  opened— Lodge  closed.— A  Masters 
Lodge  opened,  when  Bro.  Hyman  Solomon,  was  raised 
to  Sublime  Degree  of  Master  Mason.— 

Septemher  13,  i784.— Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro 
William  Milnor  Master  p.  t.— twelve  members— one 
Visitor  Bro  Polonois 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— The  petition 
of  Chas.  Nuttle  was  presented  by  Bro  Proctor,  or- 
dered to  lie  on  the  books;  and  referred  to  Bros 
Roberts  &  Nones. 

On  Motion  of  Bro  Proctor,  Bros  Farrell,  Penning- 
ton and  Nones,  were  appointed  a  Committe  to  write 
to  Bro  Von  Worn  our  late  Secretary,  inquiring  to 
know  the  Reasons  why  he  left  the  Lodge  without  in- 
forming them  and  settling  &  accounting  for  the 
monies  by  him  received,  on  ace*  of  the  Lodge.     Also 

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ordered  that  said  Committe  write  also  to  Bro  W™ 
Moore  Smith  requiring  him  forthwith  to  settle  and 
adjust  his  Acc^^  with  the  Lodge  &  pay  the  Monies  in 
his  hands,  belonging  to  the  Lodge  to  the  present 
Treasurer. 

September  30,  i7S4.— Extra  Lodge  Present.  Bro 
W°  Milnor  Master  p.  t.  Nine  Members— three  Visi- 
tors—Bro  Hamilton  P.  M— Robert  Taylor— James 
Martin 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened— John  Quin  an  E.  A.  ap- 
plied for  admission,  after  due  examination  he  was 
balloted  for  and  admitted— Bro  Milnor  then  resigned 
the  Chair  to  Bro  Rutherford— Lodge  closed.  F.  C. 
Lodge  opened  when  Bro  Quin  was  passed  to  F.  C— 
After  which  Bro  Rutherford  favored  the  Lodge  with 
an  E.  A.  Lecture. 

N.  B.  The  expenses  of  the  Night  being  paid  by 
Bro  Quin  Nothing  was  Collected 

October  11,  i7<S4.— Stated  Lodge— Present 

Bro  Wm.  Milnor    Master  p  t     Bro  P.  Farrell         P.  M. 

"  I.  Pennington  S.  W.  "A  Rutherford    P.  M. 

"  B.  Nones,         J.  W.  "     B.  Dougherty 

"  I.  Bush  S.  D.  "     J.  Angus 

"  I.  Salsbury      J.  D  pt  "J  Quin 

"  J.  Leamy         Treas  "     E  Evens 

"  A.  Humphreys  See. 

Visitors 

Bro  M.  M.  Polonois  Bro  Robert  Taylor 

"    Jno  Duff  "  Stafford 

"     Jas  Martin  "     P.  Wadman 

"     J.  L.  Dusantoy  Leeassoy    "     W.  McElhatton 

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^be  H)a\vn  ot  peace  an^  proepertt^ 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Charles 
Nuttle  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  Entered. 

A  petition  was  received  from  Matthew  Huston, 
ordered  to  lie  on  the  books— Lodge  closed— A  Masters 
Lodge  opened,  when  Bro  Quin  was  raised  to  the  sub- 
lime degree. 

Eec'd  for  Refreshm*  39/4  pd  for  Candles  1/5. 
Closed  in  Harmony  half  past  nine  0 'Clock. 

October  23,  i7(S4.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro  W" 
Milnor  Master  p.  t.— twelve  Members— five  Visitors. 

A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.  The  W.  M.  in 
the  name  of  the  Lodge  returned  the  Lodge's  thanks  to 
Bro.  Nones  for  his  present  of  a  cloth  for  the  Table 
belonging  to  this  Lodge.  Bro.  Nuttle  was  then  passed 
to  F.  C— Lodge  Closed— An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened, 
when  by  virtue  of  a  dispensation  from  the  D.  G.  M. 
Mr.  Benj.  Stevens  was  balloted  for,  approved  and 
entered.  Lodge  Closed— A  F.  C.  Lodge  again  opened, 
when  Bro.  Stevens,  was  passed  to  F.  C— No  Collec- 
tion was  made,  as  the  Candidates  paid  the  expenses.— 

October  27,  jZZS^.- Extra  Lodge  by  Adjournment.— 
Present— Bro.  I.  Pennington  Master  p.  t.— Eleven 
Members,  and  James  Martin  a  Visitor. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  by  the  senior 
Warden,  the  W.  M.  not  being  present  and  no  business 
appearing— the  Lodge  was  closed.— A  Masters  Lodge 
opened  by  Bro  Young  who  raised  Bro  Stevens  to  the 
Sublime  degree. 

November  8,  ^784.— Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro  W" 

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Milnor  Master  p.  t.— Eleven  Members— Three  Visi- 
tors:—Bro  Simon  Nathan— W"  Sellers— Morris. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge,  opened  in  due  form,  when  Matthew 
Houston  was  balloted  for,  and  approved.  No  other 
Business  appearing— Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at 
Eight  0 'Clock- 
December  13,  i7S4.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro 
W™  Milnor  Master  p.  t.— Bros— Pennington,  S.  W 
-B.  Nones,  J.  W.  S.  Evans,  S.  D.-W.  McElhatton, 
J.  D.— A  Humphreys,  Sec'y— J.  Leamy,  Treas.— A 
Rutherford— P.  Wadman,—  W.Guise— I.  Bush.  Visi- 
tors—Geo  Taylor  N°  2,  New  York— Edw.  Lang. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Mr 
Matthew  Houston  received  the  first  step  in  masonry. 

Bro  Evans  exhibited  an  Ace*  for  Monies  paid  by 
him,  to  F.  A.  Morris  for  work  done  for  the  Lodge 
amounting  to  45/8 

Ordered  that  the  same  be  repaid  him,  and  that,  as 
The  Grand  Lodge,  Lodge  No  4  &  Lodge  No  9,  have  the 
use  of  our  Room,  the  said  ace*  be  divided  amongst 
them  &  that  they  be  severally  called  on  by  the  Tyler 
for  their  shares  of  this  Expence. 

Bro  Rutherford  having  presented  to  the  Lodge  a 
plate,  belonging  to  the  Lodge  for  the  purpose  of 
printing  summonses,— also  a  picture  of  a  Master 
Mason  as  a  free  Gift,  The  W.  M.  in  the  Name  of  the 
Lodge,  return 'd  the  Lodge's  thanks  for  the  same. 

This  being  the  Night  preceeding  St  John's  Day  the 
election  for  Officers  was  opened,  when  the  following 


^be  2)a\vn  ot  peace  anb  proeperiti? 


officers  were  chosen  &  duly  elected— Bro  Isaac  Pen- 
nington Master— Benj.  Nones,  S.  W.— Asheton  Hum- 
phreys,  J.  W.  Isaiah  Bush  Sec 'y— John  Leamy,  Treas. 
— Edw  Evans,  S.  D.— John  Salsbury,  J.  D.  and  Bro 
Giese,  Steward. 

There  is  no  entry  in  the  minute  book  for  St.  John's 
Day.  It  is  known,  however,  that  the  Lodge  attended 
the  religious  services  at  Christ  Church,  in  response 
to  the  following  invitation  issued  by  the  Grand  Lodge 
at  the  quarterly  communication,  held  December  20, 
1784: 

"All  members  of  the  Society  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons 
are  particularly  requested  to  meet  on  Monday  next,  precisely 
at  nine  o'clock,  in  the  forenoon,  at  the  Lodge  Boom  in  Lodge 
Alley,  from  thence  to  walk,  in  Masonic  procession,  to  Christ 
Church,  when  a  charity  sermon  will  be  delivered  for  the  poor 
of  the  Craft,  the  poor  of  the  congregation,  and  the  distressed 
prisoners  confined  in  the  goal.  After  the  sermon  an  anthem 
will  be  sung,  suitable  to  the  occasion. ' ' 

December  31,  i754.— Extra  Lodge— Present.  Bro 
Isaac  Pennington  Master  p.  t.— ten  members,  and  Bro. 
Baush  a  Visitor. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.  No  business 
appearing  was  closed.  A  Masters  Lodge  was  then 
opened,  and  following  Brethren  were  installed  accord- 
ing to  Ancient  Usage:  viz:— Bro  Isaac  Pennington, 
Master— Benj.  Nones  S.  W.  Asheton  Humphreys,  J. 
W.     John  Leamy,  Treas  and  Isaiah  Bush  Sec'y 

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THE 

CHARACTER 

O  F    T  H  E 

EVANGELIST  St.  JOHN, 

I  N    A 

CHARITY  SERMON, 

Preached  in 

CHRIST-CHURCH,  PHILADELPHIA, 

On   DECEMBER  27,   IJ84. 
(Being  the  Anniversary  of  the  fame  Evangelist) 

BEFORE 

THE  ANCIENT  AND  HONORABLE  FRATERNITY 
O    F 

Free   and   accepted  MASONS. 


By   WILLIAM    WHITE,    D.  D. 

rector  OF  CHRIST-CHURCH  AND  St.  PETERS. 


PHILADELPHIA: 
Printed    by    HALL    and    SELLERS. 


M,DCC,LXXXV. 

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REV.    WILLIAM    WHITE,    D.D. 

BORN  APRIL  4,  1748.     DIED  JULY  17,   1836. 


ZTbe  Bawn  of  peace  an^  prosperity 


January  6,  1785.— 'Extra  Lodge 
Members 


Bro  Isaac  Pennington 

Benjamin  Nones 

Asheton  Humphreys 

John  Leamy 

Isaiah  Bush 

T.  B.  Bowen 

Bar  tram 

Alex  Rutherford 
Patrick  Ferrall 
Edward  Evans 
Moses  Cohen 
Saml  Jar  vis 
Fred"  W  Starman 
W"  Keeler 
William  Shirtliff 


Masf         Visitors 
S.  W.       Bro  Edward  Fox 

J.  W.  "  Solomon  Bush 

Treas'         "  John  Aue 

Seet^  "  George  Bush 

S.  D.  pt     "  Augustine    Jones 

J.  D  pt      "  John  Claypoole 

"  T.  Withy 

"  Matthew  Bennet 

"  Thomas  Wylie 

"  H.  D.  PurceU 

"  Michael  Jennings 

"  James  Berwick 

"  John  Harwood 

"  Gavin  Hamilton 


An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  and  by  virtue 
of  a  Dispensation  of  the  E.  W.  G.  Master  the  follow- 
ing Gentlemen  were  seperately  baUotted  for,  found 
worthy  and  received  the  first  step  in  Masonry  and 
returned  thanks:  viz:— George  Wescott — Isaac  Van 
Vleck— and  Charles  Dryall. 

January  10,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro. 
Isaac  Pennington  Masf  Twelve  Members,  Three 
Visitors:— Bros.  H.  D.  Purcell— John  Lawson  and 
Jones. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form. 

Brother  Asheton  Humphreys  our  late  Secretary  in- 
form'd  the  Lodge  he  had  examined  the  Minutes  of 
1767  and  could  not  find  any  entry  made  in  regard  to 
work  done  by  Bro.  Joseph  Ehoads  Dec*^  whereupon  it 

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82 


^be  2)awn  of  peace  ant)  iproeperit^ 

was  agreed  that  the  present  Sec^  should  examine  the 
aforesaid  Minutes  a  second  time  &  Report  thereon 
the  next  Stated  Night.  The  Tyler  inform 'd  the 
Lodge  that  he  had  not  called  on  the  different  Lodges 
for  their  proportion  of  repairs  made  to  the  Lodge 
Room— he  not  having  been  furnished  with  the  Acct. 
Ordered  That  the  Treasurer  furnish  the  Sect^.  with 
the  account  who  is  to  make  out  the  different  propor- 
tions of  each  Lodge  &  give  them  to  the  Tyler  for 
collection.  Brother  Lewis  Farmer  presented  a  Peti- 
tion to  the  Lodge  from  Mr  John  Melbeck  a  Modem 
Mason  praying  to  become  an  Ancient  Mason— he 
being  recommended  by  Brothers  Lewis  Farmer  & 
William  Giese.  Order 'd  that  the  Petition  lay  the 
usual  time  on  the  Books  &  that  Bro^  John  Leamy  & 
Asheton  Humphreys  be  appointed  to  examine  into 
his  Character.  The  Petition  of  M^  W"".  Kunckell 
being  read  solliciting  to  be  admitted  a  Member  of  our 
Honb'^  Society— he  being  recommended  by  Brother 
Frederick  W"  Starman.  Ordered  that  his  petition 
lay  the  usual  time  on  the  Books  &  that  Bro^  T.  B. 
Bowen  &  Edward  Evans  be  appointed  to  investigate 
his  Character.  Application  being  made  by  a  member 
of  the  Sublime  Lodge  of  Perfection  to  let  them  have 
the  use  of  our  Room,  it  was  agreed  to  let  them  have 
the  use  of  it,  provided  their  Meetings  did  not  inter- 
fere with  those  of  any  other  Lodge.  This  being  the 
1''  Stated  Night  after  S'  Johns  Day  the  Bye  Laws 

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were  read  agreeable  to  custom  when  it  was  found  that 
many  matters  had  not  been  put  in  execution— it  was 
therefore  agreed  that  they  should  be  taken  up  and 
considered  at  the  next  stated  Night.  Lodge  Closed. 
—A  Fellow  Crafts  Lodge  Opened  in  Due  form— Bro''^ 
George  Wescott  &  Isaac  Vanvleck  were  pass'd  to  the 
degree  of  Fellow  Crafts  &  gave  thanks  and  received 
the  benefit  of  an  Enter 'd  Apprentices  Lecture— Re- 
ceived two  Dollars  on  Account  of  Mess.  John  Melbeck 
&  W".  Kunckell,  likewise  for  Eefreshment  Twenty- 
Six  Shillings  &  three  pence  &  for  Lodge  Dues  Fifty- 
four  Shillings  &  four  pence  half  penny,  in  all  amount- 
ing to  Four  Pounds  fifteen  Shillings  &  Seven  pence 
half  penny  which  was  paid  into  the  Hands  of  the 
Treasurer. 

Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  10  o'clock. 

February  14,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge— Present.  Bros: 
Isaac  Pennington  Masf— fourteen  members,  three 
Visitors 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.  It  was  found 
that  the  Business  of  the  Night  would  not  admit  of  an 
examination  of  the  By-Laws  therefore  it  was  agreed 
that  they  should  be  taken  up  the  next  stated  meeting. 

The  Tyler  reported  to  the  Lodge  that  he  had  rec^ 
from  the  Grand  Lodge  and  N°  4  their  proportions  of 
the  expence  arising  for  the  repairs  done  to  the  Room 

Received  of  Jeremiah  Fisher  our  late  Treasurer  by 
the  hands  of  the  Worshipful  Master  Viz*.— a  Certifi- 
cate Sign'd  by  Benj°.  Stelle  for  69 1^  D^^  Notes  Signed 

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Zbc  Dawn  of  peace  ant)  iprosperttiP 

by  David  Eittenliouse  for  4^  D'■^  &  Jeremiali  Fishers 
Note  on  Demand  for  Sixteen  Pounds  Seventeen  Shil- 
lings &  Six  Pence— Jeremiah  Fisher  declared  this  to 
be  all  that  he  had  in  his  hands  belonging  to  the 
Lodge.— Paid  into  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer  the 
above  Certificates  &  notes 

The  Worshipful  Master  informed  the  Lodge  that 
with  the  concurrence  of  the  Wardens  he  had  given 
an  Order  on  the  Treasurer  in  fav"  of  M""  Hugh  Mc- 
Cormick  a  Distress 'd  Brother  for  Six  Pounds.  The 
Lodge  was  fully  satisfied  with  the  same;  and  agreed 
that  hereafter  the  Master  &  Wardens  should  be  a 
standing  Committee  for  the  purpose  of  affording  such 
relief  as  they  might  think  proper  to  any  distress 'd 
Brother;— as  likewise  in  all  other  charitable  acts.  Mr 
John  Melbeck  who  was  represented  as  a  Modern 
Mason  was  found  not  to  be  as  was  set  forth;  he  was 
Balloted  for  as  likewise  Mr.  W".  Kunckell  «&  were 
found  worthy  &  Received  the  first  step  in  Masonry 
and  gave  thanks;  received  of  Brothers  John  Melbeck 
and  William  Kunckell  Twelve  Pounds  five  Shillings 
being  their  initiation  Fees,  Lodge  Dues  Three  Pounds 
Eighteen  Shillings  and  Nine  Pence,  Nights  expenses 
fifteen  shillings;  in  all  amounting  to  Sixteen  Pounds 
Eighteen  shillings  &  nine  pence,  which  was  paid  into 
the  Hands  of  the  Treasurer.  Lodge  Closed,  A  Mas- 
ters Lodge  was  open'd  in  due  form,  when  Brother 
Isaac  Vanvleck  was  raised  to  the  sublime  degree  of  a 
Master  Mason  &  gave   thanks.      The   Lodge   agreed 

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that  the  widow  of  our  Brother  Joseph  Rhoads  De- 
ceased (being  in  a  distress 'd  situation  should  receive 
Payment  for  an  Account  she  render 'd  to  the  Lodge 
said  to  be  for  work  done  by  her  Husband  in  1767 
which  does  not  appear  on  the  Minutes  of  that  year. 
Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  10  o'clock. 

Jan'y  IV'  1785 
The  Grand  Lodge  of  North  America 
To  Lodge  No  2     Dr 
To  your  proportion  of  fixing  22  panes  Glass  12  x  10 

@  22^  p.  £  2—0—4  10—1 

To  your  proportion  of  puttying  16  Squares  of  old 

Sash  work  5/4  1 — 4 


0—11—5 


March  14,  :Z 7(95.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  Isaac 
Pennington  Masf  Twelve  Members— 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— It  was  the 
opinion  of  the  Lodge  that  Bro.  Jeremiah  Fisher  be 
particularly  summon 'd  to  appear  before  the  Lodge 
at  their  first  Meeting  to  render  a  satisfactory  Account 
of  Money  he  had  received  during  his  being  Treasurer — 

The  Consideration  of  the  By  Laws  was  postponed 
on  account  of  so  few  Members  being  present.  Lodge 
Closed 

A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bros  John  Melbeck  & 
William  Kunckell  were  passed  to  the  degree  of  F.  C. 

The  Treasurer  announced  that  he  had  received  from 
the  Tyler  22/  lOd  being  what  he  had  received  from 
the  Grand  Lodge  and  N°  4. 

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He  likewise  informed  the  Lodge  that  he  had  paid 
the  Widow  of  our  late  Bro.  Joseph  Rhoads,  £  7—18—3 
in  full  the  same  being  agreed  to  by  the  Lodge,  he 
likewise  paid  for  a  Cord  of  Wood  36/  4d. 

April  11,  i785.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Isaac  Pen- 
nington Masf  fourteen  Members,— R.  W.  G.  Master 
Wm  Adcock,  and  four  Visitors  Bros  Jonathan  B. 
Smith,— George  Bush— John  Alexander  and  H.  D. 
Purcell. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form— Bro  Jere^ 
Fisher  attended,  and  rendered  an  account  of  the 
monies  he,  rec  'd  and  paid  out  during  the  time  he  acted 
as  Treasurer  to  the  Lodge,— Which  they  were  per- 
fectly satisfied  with. 

The  R.  W.  Grand  Master  informed  the  Lodge  that 
the  House  we  had  now  in  posession,  would  shortly  be 
disposed  of  by  the  proprietors  of  the  same,  he  there- 
fore hoped  this  Lodge  would  adopt  some  method 
to  assist  in  making  purchase  of  the  House,  or  to  build 
another.— The  matter  being  duly  considered— it  was 
unanimously  agreed  that  Mess.  Alex  Rutherford, 
Praise  Wadman  and  Benjamin  Nones  be  appointed  a 
Committe  to  hand  a  Subscription  for  the  aforesaid 
purpose  &  that  the  success  thereof  be  paid  into  the 
hands  of  the  Grand  Treasurer  as  a  free  gift  to  the 
Grand  Lodge,  &  to  take  the  Grand  Treasurer's  receipt 
for  the  same. 

That  Lodge  No.  2  made  a  noble  response  to  this 
appeal  from  the  Grand  Lodge  is  shown  by  following 
subscription  list: 

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We,  the  subscribers,  do  promise  to  pay  into  the  hands  of 
Alex.  Rutherford,  Praise  Wadman,  and  Benj.  Nones  the  sum 
which  we  have  aflElxed  to  our  names,  being  for  the  purpose  of 
purchasing  or  building  a  house  for  a  Lodge,  agreeably  to  a 
minute  of  Lodge  No.  2  of  April  11th,  1785. 


£     s 

Wm.  Ball 3  15 

Isaac  Pennington 1  17 

Benj.   Nones 3     0 

Ash eton  Humphreys. . .   1     2 

Isaiah   Bush 1     2 

Jno.  Learning 1     2 

Jerh.   Fox 0  15 

Abm.  Roberts 1     2 

Jno.  Bartram,  Jr 1     2 

Jno.    Carson 1  10 

Wm.  Geisse 2     0 

L.  Simmons 1     0 

Jno.  Wood 5     0 

Thos.  Jones 3     0 

Jos.  Howell,  Jr 1  17 

Jno.  Angus 1  13 

Ed.  Evans 1     2 

Wm.  Shirtlife 1     2 

Isaac  Vanvleck 1     0 

Thos.  Proctor 6     0 

R.  T.  Shewell 1  10 

P.  S.  Duponceau 1     2 

John  King 1  10 

Jas.   Sutter 0  15 

Geo.  Westeott 1    2 

Chas.  Dryatt 1     2 

W.   Humphreys 1     2 

Jno.   Redman 1     2 

Jno.  Claypoole 1     2 

Benj.  Davis,  Jr 1     2 

Jno.  Rice 2     5 

E.  Beatty 1    2 


d  £    s  d 

0      Moses  Cohen 115  0 

6      Jas.  Hutchinson 2     5  0 

0      Mat.  Henderson 1  10  0 

6      Jac.  Bankson 1  15  0 

6      Jno.  Dunlap 2     5  0 

6      Jas.  Craig,  Junr 1     2  6 

0      J.  Shallus 12  6 

6      Wm.  Milnor 12  6 

6      Cornal  Jarvis 3     0  0 

0      Jno.  Salsbeiy 1  10  0 

0      Richd.  Wistar 2    5  0 

0      Thos.  Wylie 12  6 

0      Thos.  Leamiug  Jr 1     2  6 

0      Richd.   Patton 1  10  0 

6      Frs.   Johnston 1     2  6 

4      Henry  Bedkin 1     2  6 

6      Hugh  Lennox 1  10  0 

6      Jno.  MaiUard 3     0  0 

0      Alex.  Rutherford 6     0  0 

0      Jno.   Vannost 2     5  0 

0      Lemuel  Savage 12  6 

6      W.  M.  Ellaton 10  0 

0      Wm.   Kunckel 10  0 

0      Jon'n  Gostelawe 1     2  6 

6      Wm.   Keeler 12  6 

6      B.Dougherty 5     0  0 

6      Jno.  Reily 3     0  0 

6      Jas.  McLean 3     0  0 

6      Jno.  Wenee 3     0  0 

6      Jno.  Irwin 2     5  0 

^  £115     5  10 
6 

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A  motion  was  made  and  seconded  that  the  By-Law 
for  imposing  a  fine  on  the  Brethren  for  non-attendance 
be  repealed— Unanimously  agreed  to. 

The  W.  M.  informed  the  Lodge  that  the  Committe 
of  Charity  had  lent  B.  Lamarquissi  a  distressed. 
Brother,  Three  Pounds.     Lodge  Closed. 

A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bros  Jeremiah  Fox- 
Matthew  Houston  were  passed  to  F.  C. 
The  Grand  Lodge 

To  Joseph  Dolby         Dr 

To  chaiming  the  bells  last  St  Johns  day 

For  the  Honrable  Sosity  going  to  the  Church  in  form  for 
the  Benefit  of  the  Poor  £  1—10—0  April  18—1785 

Ma^/  9,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge— Present 

Bro  Isaac  Pennington        Masf         Bro  Isaiah  Bush    See'y 
"     Asheton  Humphreys   S.  W  pt      "     John  Leamy    Treas"" 
"     Edward  Evans  J.  W.  pt     "     Isaac  Vanvleck 

"     T.  B.  Bowen  S  D  pt        "     Jacob  G.  Koch 

"     John  Bartram  J.  D.  pt       "     Praise  Wadman 

Jeremiah  Fox 

Visitors. — Bro  Thomas  Smith — Gavin  Hamilton 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.  No  business 
appearing.— Lodge  Closed.  A  Masters  Lodge  was 
opened,  when  Bros.  Jeremiah  Fox  and  Jacob  G.  Koch 
were  raised  to  the  Sublime  Degree.  Bro.  T.  B.  Bowen 
having  informed  the  Lodge  of  his  intention  of  going 
to  Charleston,  So.  Carolina  to  reside  he  therefore  took 
a  formal  leave  of  the  Worshipful  Masf  and  Brethren. 

Bro.  Gavin  Hamilton  informed  the  Lodge  of  his 
being  appointed  by  Lodge  No  3  to  present  their  best 


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wishes  to  Lodge  No  2— Bro  Asheton  Humplireys  was 
appointed  to  Wait  on  Lodge  No  3  and  return  Lodge 
No  2  best  Wishes— 

Jim.e  13,  :Z7<S5.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  Isaac 
Pennington  Masf— fifteen  Members,— three  Visitors: 
—Bros  J.  B.  Smith— John  Maillard— George  Way. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.  Bro  John 
Maillard  applied  for  Membership  balloted  for  and 
admitted— This  being  the  Night  preceeding  St  John's 
Day  the  Election  for  Officers  was  opened,  and  Chosen 
as  follows:— 

Bros.  Assheton  Humphreys,  Master.— Isaiah  Bush, 
S.  W.  Jno.  Bartram  jr.  J.  W.— Isaac  Vanvleck  Sec'y 
—George  Wescott  Treas. 

June  18,  i 755.- Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro  Isaac 
Pennington  Masf — Nine  Members— John  Alexander 
a  Visitor. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  no  Business— Lodge  closed, 
A  Masters  Lodge  Opened,  when  Bro  George  Wescott 
was  raised  to  the  Sublime  Degree 

June  23,  i7S5.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  Bro  Isaac 
Pennington  in  the  Chair— ten  Members. 

A  Masters  Lodge  opened,  when  the  following  Breth- 
ren were  installed  according  to  antient  usage: 

Bro  Assheton  Humphreys,  W.  M  Bro  Isaac  Vanvleck     Sec'y 

"     Isaiah  Bush,  S  W  "     Edw.  Evans,  S.  D 

"     John  Bartram  jr.  J.  W  "     Jeremiah  Fox,       J.  D 

"     Geo  Westcott,  treas.  "    Wm  McElhatton,  Steward 

July  7,  i7(55.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro  A.  Hum- 
phreys W.  M.  fourteen  Members,  and  Six  Visitors 

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An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.  When  by 
Virtue  of  a  dispensation  of  the  R.  W.  Gr.  M.  Mr 
Anthony  Joseph  Ferara  Roche  was  balloted  for  and 
found  worthy. 

Bro  Ghisling  formerly  Tyler  of  this  Lodge,  was,  by 
Bro  Howard,  represented  to  be  in  Very  indigant  Cir- 
cumstances, and  that  he  concieved  a  ballance  remained 
due  to  the  said  Bro  Ghisling  for  former  services  ren- 
dered this  Lodge;  Whereupon  it  was  ordered  that  the 
Secretary  should  examine  the  former  minutes  in  order 
to  ascertain  the  same,  and  make  a  report  accordingly. 

Bro.  Anthony  Jos.  Ferrara  received  the  first  step 
in  Masonry.— returned  and  gave  thanks.— When  Bros 
Telles  and  Nones  were  appointed  Guardians  to  the 
new  initiated  Bro.  to  instruct  him  in  the  Mysteries  of 
the  first  Steps  of  Masonry.— N.  B.  No  Collection 
made,  Bro  Roche  paid  the  expenses  of  the  night. 

July  9,  J7S5.— Extra  Lodge— Present.— Bro  Hum- 
phreys W.  M.  fourteen  Members— three  Visitors. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge,  opened  in  due  form— The  petition 
of  Mr  Abraham  Jones  was  presented,  and  ordered  to 
lie  on  the  books.— Lodge  Closed— F.  C.  Lodge  opened, 
when  Bro  A.  J.  F.  Roche  was  passed  to  F.  C. — Bro 
Roche  then  paid  his  Fees  for  admission,  as  also  three 
Dollars  for  the  Dispensation  from  the  Grand  Lodge. 

July  11,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  A. 
Humphreys  W.  M.— Ten  Members — Two  Visitors, 
Bros  Patterson  and  Hoffner  from  Lodge  No  4. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge.     This  being  the  first  stated  night 

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after  St  John's  Day— the  By-Laws  were  to  haue  been 
read,  but  as  much  business  was  to  be  transacted  this 
evening,  the  reading  of  them  was  ordered  to  be  de- 
ferr'd  until  the  next  Stated  Night. 

Bro  Etting  now  an  Inhabitant  of  Lancaster,  paid 
his  Lodge  dues  and  received  his  Certificate  and  a  dis- 
charge for  future  attendance  on  this  Lodge. 

An  ace*  from  Bro  Ghysling  was  exhibited  on  which 
appeared  a  ballance  remaining  due,  of  £  7—17—6  for 
services  rendered  this  Lodge  as  Tyler,  The  Sen.  and 
Jun.  Wardens,  and  the  Secretary  were  appointed  a 
Committe  to  examine  the  Same,  and  also  to  remain  a 
Standing  Committee  to  inspect  all  future  accounts, 
that  may  be  exhibited  to  this  Lodge— Lodge  Closed— 

A  Masters  Lodge  opened,  when  Bros  Kunkel  and 
Eoche  were  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree. 

August  8,  i755.— Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro  A. 
Humphreys,  Masf  Thirteen  Brethren— five  Visitors: 
Sol.  Bush— J.  Devan— Henry  Steade— Jordon  Hopson 
—Richard  Hunt. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— when  Mr 
Abraham  Jones  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  en- 
tered. Bros  Nones  and  Bush  were  appointed  his 
Guardians. 

The  Committe  appointed  to  examine  the  account 
rendered  by  Bro.  Ghysling,  reported  that  they  had 
examined  the  Minutes  of  the  Lodge,  from  which  they 
Could  not  fully  elucidate  the  same.  It  was  thereupon, 

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Resolved:— That  the  same  Committe  finally  deter- 
mine the  same  as  speedy  as  possible,  and  give  an 
order  in  favor  of  Bro  Gisling  on  the  Treasurer  for 
the  ballance  that  May  appear  due. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Mr  Thomas  Cnllen 
—ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books.— 

The  By  Laws  were  then  read— Bros  Isaac  Penning- 
ton—Jno  Leamy— Geo  Westcott— and  Benj.  Nones 
were  appointed  a  committe  to  revise  the  By-Laws. 

September  12,  i755.— Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro 
Asheton  Humphreys  Masf  fourteen  Members,— ten 
Visitors 

An  E.  A,  Lodge  opened  in  due  form— Petitions  of 
Mess  Robert  Crozier  and  Sam'  House  were  read,  the 
former  being  recommended  by  the  R.  W.  D.  G.  Master 
and  the  latter  by  Bro  Moses  Cohen.— Ordered  to  lie 
on  the  books. 

Mr  Thomas  Cullen,  was  then  balloted  for,  found 
worthy  and  Entered— Lodge  Closed,— A  F.  C.  Lodge 
opened,  when  Bros  Charles  Dryall  and  Abram  Jones 
were  passed  to  F.  C.  Received  for  Refreshment  24 
Shillings  4  Pence— halfpenny  The  W.  M.  and  S.  W. 
were  appointed  Guardians  to  Bro  Cullen.— 

Bro  Jeremiah  Fox  asked  to  have  four  years  dues 
remitted  during  the  time  of  his  absence  from  the  City. 
—Granted 

September  17,  :Z7(S5.— Extra  Lodge— Present  Bro  A. 
Humphreys  Masf— 13  Members,— two  Visitors— John 
Davan— Lazarus  Levy. 

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A.  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Bro 
Cullen  was  passed  to  that  degree  and  Lodge  Closed. 

A  Masters  Lodge  was  opened,  when  following 
Brethren  were  raised  to  that  degree  and  gave  thanks, 
Viz:— John  Milbeck— John  Maillard— Abram.  Jones, 
—and  Thomas  Cullen. 

Bro.  Giese  presents  his  acco*  as  Steward,  referred 
to  Committe  on  accounts.— 

After  the  establishment  of  "Lodge  of  Grand  Elect, 
Perfect  and  Sublime  Masons"  in  Philadelphia,  June 
25,  1781,  as  set  forth  in  Vol.  I.,  p.  425,  the  meetings 
were  held  with  more  or  less  regularity  in  the  Lodge 
room,  in  Videll's  Alley,  in  the  old  Freemason's  Lodge 
in  Lodge  Alley,  and  finally,  after  the  sale  of  the  latter 
house,  in  Joseph  Morris'  building  in  Black  Horse 
Alley,  below  Market  Street  east  of  Second  Street. 

The  dedication  of  this  Masonic  room  was  an  occa- 
sion of  much  ceremony  in  which  all  of  the  various 
Masonic  bodies  of  the  city  took  part.  The  following 
account  appeared  in  the  Pennsylvania  Journal,  No. 
2009,  September  24,  1785. 

Tuesday  last  being  the  day  appointed  for  the  consecration 
of  the  Sublime  Lodge  of  Philadelphia,  for  confering  the  su- 
perior degrees  of  Masonry,  the  brethren  assembled  at  the 
Lodge-room  in  Lodge-alley,  and  walked  in  procession  to  the 
New  Lodge  in  Black-Horse-alley,  attended  by  a  band  of 
music.  The  thrice  puisant  then  opened  the  Lodge  and  in- 
troduced the  business  with  a  suitable  prayer,  when  the  con- 

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stitution  and  bye-laws  were  read.  After  which  was  delivered, 
an  elegant  oration  composed  by  brother  Vannost,  and  a  beauti- 
ful ode  set  to  music,  composed  by  brother  Smith  of  the  sub- 
lime lodge. 

FORM  OF  THE  PEOCESSION. 

The  Master  of  Ceremonies  or  Sword  Bearer. 

Brother  Orator  and  Clergy. 

The  Treasurer  with  the  Bible  and  velvet  Cushion. 

The  thrice  puisant  with  the  worshipfuls  Deputy  Grand  Master 
and  Grand  Warden  of  Pennsylvania  at  his  right  and  left. 

Brother  Inspector. 

The  senior  and  junior  Sublime  Wardens. 

The  Sublime  Secretary, 

The  Brethren  of  the  Sublime  Lodge  two  and  two. 

The  Brethren  of  the  Royal  Arch. 

Past  Masters. 

Officers  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

Officers  of  Lodge  No.  3. 

Officers  of  Lodge  No.  4. 

Officers  of  Lodge  No.  8. 

Officers  of  Lodge  No.  9. 

Invited  Brethren  two  and  two. 

Tyler. 

There  has  been  no  instance  of  a  masonic  procession  which 
exhibited  a  more  respectable  appearance,  and  the  solemnities 
used  in  consecrating  the  lodge  were  very  striking.  A  pretty 
collation  was  prepared  by  the  sublime  lodge,  for  the  visiting 

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brethren;  and  in  the  afternoon  the  brethren  dined  together, 
at  the  City-Tavern  and  spent  the  day  in  the  greatest  harmony. 
The  following  toasts  were  drank : 

1.  The  Sublime  Lodge  of  perfection  this  day  consecrated. 

2.  Our  illustrious  Brother  the  King  of  Prussia. 

3.  Our  beloved  Brother  George  Washington,  the  intended 
Grand  Master  of  America. 

4.  That  dignified  Philosopher  and  Friend  to  Mankind, 
Brother  Benjamin  Franklin. 

5.  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania. 

6.  May  the  rust  of  discord  never  corrode  the  present 
polished  chain  of  Masonic  Fellowship. 

7.  May  health,  stability  and  power  be  ever  the  supporters 
of  our  Lodge. 

8.  May  Beauty  and  Merit  be  the  reward  of  Virtue  and 
Secrecy. 

9.  The  Land  we  live  in. 

10.  Our  worthy  Brethren  round  the  Globe. 

11.  Increase,  Love  and  Unanimity  to  the  antient  craft. 

12.  All  Masons  who  honor  the  Order  by  conforming  to  its 
rules. 

13.  The  Memory  of  old. 

We  understand  the  Prayer,  Ode,  Oration,  &c.  will  shortly  be 
be  published. 

The  list  of  members  of  the  Sublime  Lodge  in  addi- 
tion to  those  already  named  is  given  below.  It  will  be 
noted  that  it  is  made  up  largely  by  the  prominent 
members  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

John  Duserm  Peter  Morzeau 

Chevalier  De  Belveau  James  Fallon 

John  Vanost  John  Devan 

Charles  Young  Benjamin  Nones 

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Isaac  Pennington  Isiah  Bush 

Assheton  Humphreys  Thomas  B.  Bowen 

Michael  Ryan  Richard  Claiborn 

Isaac  Vansleck  Elisha  C.  Dick 

William  M  Williams  Solomon  Etting 

Peter  LeB.  Duplessis  Lazarus  Levy 

Fredk,  W  Starman  John  Melback 

William  Kunckle  Augustine  Prevost 

Alex.  Rutherford  James  Martin 

William  Smith  Charles  W.  Lecker 

John  P.  Langenberg  Thomas  Proctor 

Charles  Smith  Gavin  Hamilton 

William  Delany  Josiah  Haines 

Thos.  H.  Leuffer  James  Thompson 

Marshall  Joseph  Dean 

Luke  Isaac  Franks 


Wm.  Moore  Smith  Benjamin  Mason 

John  Freese  Frederick  Miller 

October  10,  1755.— Stated  Lodge— Present.— Bro 
Ash"  Humphreys  Masf— 12  Members,  four  Visitors: 
—Bros  Gavin  Hamilton— John  Metziers— Gamul  Dow- 
dall— Fred"  Langenbergher. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened — when  Robert  Crozier  and 
Samuel  House  were  Seperately  balloted  for,  approved 
and  Entered. 

A  petition  was  received  from  John  Dentzell,  a  Mod- 
em Mason,  praying  to  be  enlightened  agreeable  to 
Antient  form,  ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books. — 

Lodge  Closed,— A  Master  Mason's  Lodge  opened, 
when  Bro  Chas.  Dryall  was  raised  to  that  Sublime 
Degree. 

Bro.  Isaiah  Bush  informed  the  Lodge  that  he  in- 
tended going  to  Charleston  S°  Carolina,  and  was  de- 
sirous of  paying  his  Lodge  dues  and  getting  a  dis- 

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charge  from  the  Lodge.  He  paid  13/  6M— being  the 
Amount  of  his  Dues,  therefore  was  not  to  be  Consid- 
ered as  a  member  from  this  time. 

That  the  efforts  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  so  ably  sec- 
onded by  Lodge  No.  2,  to  secure  the  title  of  the  house 
in  Lodge  Alley  failed  to  come  to  a  successful  end,  is 
shown  by  the  following  advertisement,  which  also 
gives  us  some  idea  of  its  construction. 

"To  be  sold  by  Public  Auction,  To  morrow  the  l''^  day  of 
October  [1785],  at  the  old  Coffee  House  at  6  0 'Clock  in  the 
Evening, — The  House,  called  the 

FREEMASONS   LODGE 

In  Lodge  Alley,  with  the  Lot  op  Ground  wheron  it  stands. 

Containing  in  front  60  feet  and  in  depth  42  feet,  with  the 
privilege  of  a  5  feet  alley  to  the  westward,  and  the  privilege 
of  opening  windows  to  the  eastward,  and  their  light  not  to  be 
anyways  obstructed;  Subject  to  a  ground  rent  of  23  pounds 
5  shillings  per  annum.  The  House  is  Large,  and  well 
suited  for  many  public  uses,  as  well  as  for  a  compleat  wet 
or  dry  goods  store,  or  a  dwelling  house,  the  rooms  being  very 
large  and  commodious,  the  floors  supported  by  strong  and  sub- 
stantial Joice,  and  there  being  dry  and  deep  Cellars  under 
the  whole  building,  with  a  chimney  to  suit  a  kitchen. 

The  terms  of  payment  will  be — one  fourth  of  the  purchase 
money  within  one  month  after  the  sale;  one  fourth  on  the 
1st  of  February — one  fourth  on  the  1^*^  of  May,  and  the  last 
payment  on  the  1^'  of  August  next,  with  interest. 

Posession  to  be  delivered  and  the  deed  executed  on  making 

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the  first  payment,  and  giving  satisfactory  security  for  the 
remainder. 

A.  S'  Clair  &  Co.  Auctioneers 
September  SO''^  1785 

With  this  sale  the  building  passed  out  of  all  con- 
trol of  the  Fraternity,  and  after  serving  for  a  time 
as  the  banking  house  of  the  Bank  of  Pennsylvania, 
was  finally  torn  down  and  the  space  upon  which  it 
stood  became  part  of  the  garden  back  of  the  bank, 
now  in  turn  supplanted  by  the  United  States  ap- 
praiser's stores. 

The  proceeds  of  the  sale,  belonging  to  the  survivors 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons,  was  donated  to  the 
city  as  a  fund  to  "furnish  the  poor  with  fire  wood."^ 

November  10,  i785.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro 
A.  Humphreys,  Master— 9  Members,  three  Visitors 


" "  The  Free  Masons'  Fund.  The  origin  and  object  of  this  charity 
is  fully  explained  in  the  following  letter :  '  To  Matthew  Clarkson 
Esq.,  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  Dear  Sir:  Please  to  in- 
form the  Corporation  of  the  city  that  we,  the  subscribers,  the  Trus- 
tees appointed  by  Act  of  Assembly,  for  selling  the  Free  Masons' 
Lodge,  in  Lodge  alley,  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  having  executed 
our  trust,  and  called  a  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  First  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons,  (who  formerly  contributed  theii'  stock  towards 
erecting  the  said  building,)  for  the  purpose  of  agreeing  and  de- 
claring to  what  charitable  purpose  the  one-third  part  of  the  pro- 
duce of  the  said  sale  should  be  applied.  It  was  unanimously  agreed, 
that  the  same  should  be  given  to  the  Corporation  of  the  city  of 
Philadelphia,  to  be  by  them  applied  towards  a  fund  for  supply- 
ing out  of  the  interest  thereof,  the  necessitous  inhabitants  of  the 
said  city  with  fuel  in  the  winter  season.  We  are  likewise  to  in- 
form you  that  the  one-third  part  of  the  net  proceeds  of  the  said 
sale  amounts  to  the  sum  of  five  hundred  and  seventy-four  pounds, 
four  shillings  and  eleven  pence  ($1,533.57),  which  now  remains  in 
our  hands,  ready  to  be  delivered  to  the  order  of  the  said  Corpora- 

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An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  The  W.  M.  informed  the 
Lodge  that  he  had  called  them  together  at  the  request 
of  Bro  Crozier  who  was  about  to  leave  the  City,  and 
was  desirous  to  his  departure  to  be  passed  and  raised 
to  the  Sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason— The  Lodge 
approving  this  was  accordingly  done— The  expenses 
of  the  night  being  paid  by  Bro  Crozier,  nothing  was 
collected. 

November  14,  1785.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro 
A  Humphreys  Masf— Nine  Members— two  Visitors. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  the  W. 
M.  presented  a  petition  from  Bro.  King  praying  relief, 
at  the  same  time  informed  the  Lodge,  that  he  had 
given  Bro  King  an  order  on  the  Treasurer  for  Three 
pounds,  which  being  deemed  Sufficient  the  petition 
was  dismissed. 

On  Motion  of  Bro  Leamy  a  letter  was  written  to 
Bro  Von  Worn  late  Sec 'y— requesting  him  to  account 
for  the  Monies  received  by  him  on  account  of  the 
Lodge. 

December  12,  i7(S5.— Stated  Lodge— Present— 

tion,  for  the  purpose  aforesaid.  We  are,  with  great  respect,  your 
obedient,  humble  servants,  Edward  Shippen,  John  Swift.  Phila- 
delphia, 23d  July,  1793.' 

"  The  following  are  the  names  of  the  members  of  the  First  Lodge, 
to  whom  the  disposition  of  the  money  belonged:  Edward  Shippen, 
John  Swift,  Matthew  Clarkson,  Michael  Hillegas,  Tench  Francis, 
John  Penn,  William  Smith.  (This  fund  has  since  been  merged  into 
what  is  known  as  the  City  Fuel  Fund.)  "  From  the  first  Report 
of  Board  of  City  Trusts. 

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Members 

Bro  A  Humphreys  W.  M.  Bro  A.  Rutherford 

B.  Nones  S.  W.  p.  t.     "     J.  Dean 

J.  Salisbury      J.  W.  p  t.       "    Mihior 
Moses  Cohen  "    P.  Wadman 

A  Roberts  "     I.  Pennington 

R.  Crozier 

Visitors 

Bro  Christie  Bro  Metzger 

"    Blair  "     Sergers 

"    Langenberg 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  Form— This  being 
our  Stated  night  prceeding  St.  John's  day,  we  pro- 
ceeded to  the  electing  of  Officers  for  the  ensuing 
Six  Months  and  were  elected  as  follows:  viz— Alex. 
Rutherford,  Master  John  Bartram  jr.  Sen.  Warden,— 
Joseph  Dean  Jun.  Warden  Robert  Crozier  Sec'y— 
George  Westcott  re-elected  Treasurer.  John  Salsbery, 
Sen.  Deacon,— John  Milbeck  Jun.  Deacon  and  Praise 
Wadman  Steward. 

The  Petitions  of  Mess  Geo  Knox  and  Chas.  Brown, 
Modern  Masons  were  read,  and  ordered  to  lie  on  the 
books. 

The  two  petitioners  presented  this  Lodge  with  two 
Marble  pillars. 

Bro  Leamy  late  Treasurer,  paid  into  the  hands  of 
the  present  Treasurer  the  sum  of  £  50—0—0. 

December  24,  :Z7<S5.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro 
A.  Humphreys  Mast"  ten  Members  and  Bro  Bernard 
Hoobley  a  Visitor. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  The  newly  elected  officers 

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not  attending  the  same  was  closed,  Lodge  Closed, 
and  a  F.  C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bro  Sam'  House  was 
passed  to  the  degree  of  a  F.  C. 

St.  John's  Day,  December  27,  i785.— Present  Bro 
A.  Humphrey  Masf.— J.  Bartram,  jr,  S.  W.— J.  Dean, 
J.  W  J.  Gostelowe  S.  D  pt.-T.  Proctor  J.  D.  p.  t-E. 
Crozier  Sec'y  A.  Rutherford— P.  Wadman— Ch.  De 
Longchamps.  B  Davis.  — S.  House.— Visitors:— Bros 
Delaney— Pickering— Will— Steel. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form,  a  letter 
received  from  Bro  Geo.  Westcott  Treasurer  praying 
to  resign  his  office,  which  being  read,  the  Lodge 
refused  to  accept  his  Resignation,  &  he  is  desired  to 
Continue  in  office— Lodge  Closed— A  Masters  Lodge 
opened  in  due  form,  and  the  following  Brethren  were 
installed  according  to  Ancient  Usage  viz:— 

Bro  Alex  Rutherford       Master 
"     John  Bartram  jr      S.  W. 
"     Joseph  Dean  J.  W. 

"     Robert  Crozier  Sec'y 

An  application  made  by  Col  Thos  Proctor  in  be- 
half of  Louis  D'Orsiere,  who  prayed  to  become  a 
Member  of  this  Lodge,  and  it  appearing  from  the 
information  of  the  W.  M.  that  Charles  Brown  who 
petitioned  the  Lodge  at  their  last  meeting  as  a 
''Modern"  proved  upon  Examination  to  be  an 
"Antient"  Mason— they  were  both  balloted  for,  found 
worthy  and  admitted  as  members.— Lodge  Closed  in 
Harmony  at  half  past  One  0 'Clock— P.  M. 


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CHAPTER   XVI. 

The  Close  of  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  1786. 

HE  chief  Masonic  event  of  the  year 
1786  was  the  closing  forever,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1786,  of  the  Provincial  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  acting  by 
virtue  of  a  warrant  from  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  England.  And  at  a  grand 
convention  of  thirteen  different  Lodges,  held  upon  the 
next  day,  September  26,  1786,  the  ''E.  W.  Grand 
Lodge  of  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Masonic 
Jurisdiction  thereunto  belonging"  was  duly  formed, 
as  a  Grand  Lodge  independent  of  Great  Britain  or 
any  other  authority  whatever,  being  under  no  ties 
to  any  other  Grand  Lodge  except  those  of  brotherly 
love  and  affection,  as  the  Resolution  says:  ''Which 
they  will  always  be  happy  to  cultivate  and  preserve 
with  all  Lodges  throughout  the  globe." 

The  following  account  of  this  important  action  was 
published  three  days  later  in  the  Pennsylvania  Packet, 
the   leading  newspaper  in  the   state.       (This   report 

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was  undoubtedly  written  by  Bro  Peter  Le  Barbier 
Duplessis.) 

Sep.  29,  1786. 

On  Monday  last,  we  are  told,  a  communication  took  place 
of  the  different  officers  and  representatives  of  the  respective 
lodges,  under  the  government  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Penn- 
sylvania, in  order  to  consider  the  propriety  of  renouncing 
their  submission  in  future  to  the  Masonic  power  and  authority 
of  Great  Britain,  and  declaring  themselves  independent  of 
any  foreign  jurisdiction  whatever.  And  it  was  resolved, 
that  the  Grand  Lodge  is,  and  ought  to  be  perfectly  inde- 
pendent and  free  of  any  such  foreign  jurisdiction. 

This  measure  (observes  a  correspondent)  is  not  without  its 
precedent  in  the  annals  of  masonry — Such  has  been  the  con- 
duct of  other  lodges  similarly  circumstanced  as  ourselves, 
and  seems  to  arise  from  the  providential  order  and  disposi- 
tion of  human  events.  For  although  Masonry  disavows  any 
manner  of  connection  with  politics  or  faction,  and  it  is  right 
it  should  be  so,  yet  considering  a  separation  has  taken  place 
between  Britain  and  America,  it  would  be  as  improper  and 
absurd  that  we  should  again  yield  an  obedience  to  her  wild, 
extravagant  claims  of  power,  as  that  the  lodges  of  this  inde- 
pendent country  should  be  subordinate  to  foreign  jurisdic- 
tions in  any  part  of  the  world.  Notwithstanding  our  masonic 
dependence  on  Great  Britain  is  now  no  more,  yet  those  fine 
spun  chords  of  love  and  sympathy,  by  which  the  fraternity 
are  drawn  together,  as  a  band  of  brothers,  cemented  by  the 
most  indissoluble  of  ties,  will  ever  induce  us  to  cultivate  the 
most  sociable  and  friendly  intercourse.  The  means  of  this 
cultivation  and  improvement  will  probably  be  the  frequent 
subject  of  our  best  and  most  serious  disquisitions.  We  shall 
endeavor  to  hold  forth  every  engaging  allurement  that  the 

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members  of  the  British  Grand  Lodge  may  approach,  and 
apply  their  elegant  and  wonder-working  fingers  to  finish  the 
beauties  of  so  well-ordered  a  Dome  in  this  New  Empire,  and 
make  this  favorite  land,  what  we  really  wish,  the  distinguished 
residence,  the  last  best  retreat  of  heaven-born  Masonry. 

And  while  amid  the  scientific  labors  of  the  lodge,  elevated 
schemes  of  mutual  intercourses,  of  paternal  love  will  engage, 
and  enrapture  our  minds :  while  holy  and  ancient  mysteries 
warm  the  imagination  with  improvements  kindred  glow: 
while  in  the  mournful  investigation  of  a  brothers  wants,  plead- 
ing pity  melts  our  eye,  and  generous  compassion  swells  the 
feeling  bosom:  while  among  the  cheerful  exertions  of  in- 
offensive mirth,  of  heart-enlarging  friendly  communication, 
reflection  enables  us  to  look  back  on  our  proceedings  with 
pleasure — and  conscience,  the  gentle  monitor  of  every  bosom, 
shall  find  nothing  to  dislike  or  disapprove — then  let  us  em- 
brace this  opportunity  to  admire  that  Hero-King  that  illumi- 
nated Pole-Star  of  the  Sublime  Masonic  system,  whose  fame 
as  a  prince  is  beyond  all  applause,  and  whom  we  may  justly 
boast  as  one  of  the  first  and  most  distinguished  friends  and 
lovers  of  the  Royal  Art!  that  ancient  and  honorable  art,  for 
whose  promotion  and  dignity  Lodges  are  opened  in  every 
quarter  of  the  globe  !^ 

^  The  King  of  Prussia,  Founder  of  the  sublime  Lodge  of  Perfec- 
tion, in  this  city — in  whose  exalted  praise  we  beg  leave  to  introduce 
the  following  extract  from  a  gTeat  and  modern  historian. 

"  The  King  of  Prussia  alone  hath  invented  a  new  method  of  dis- 
ciplining armies,  of  heading  battles,  and  of  gaining  victories.  This 
prince  who  would  have  been  better  served  by  another  nation,  and 
certainly  better  commended  than  he  could  possibly  be  by  his  own; 
who  hath  not  had,  since  Alexander,  his  equal  in  history,  for  extent 
and  variety  of  talents,  who,  without  having  been  himself  formed  by 
Greeks,  hath  been  able  to  form  Lacedemonians;  he,  in  a  word,  who 
hath  deserved,  beyond  all  others,  that  his  name  should  be  recorded 

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For  it  is  with  peculiar  pleasure  it  may  be  asserted,  that  in 
whatever  raatters  men  may  differ  and  disagree,  yet  they  are 
unanimous  in  venerating  an  amiable  institution,  which 
annihilates  all  parties,  conciliates  all  private  opinions,  and 
renders  those  who  by  their  Almighty  Father  were  made  of 
one  blood,  to  be  also  of  one  heart  and  one  mind:  Brethren 
bound  firmly,  bound  together  by  that  indissoluble  tie  "the 
love  of  their  God,  and  the  love  of  their  kind. ' ' 

"Father  of  all,  in  every  age, 

In  every  clime  adored; 
By  saint,  by  savage  and  by  sage, 

Jehovah,  Jove,  our  Lord! 
To  Thee  whose  temple  is  all  space, 

Whose  altar,  earth,  sea,  skies, 
One  chorus  let  all  beings  raise, 

All  nature's  incense  rise!" 

Future  and  more  copious  discussions  of  this  high  and  en- 
tertaining theme,  may  one  day  perhaps  (concludes  our  corre- 
spondent) engage  pens  far  more  able  than  his.  For  the 
present  to  attempt  its  eulogium  would  be  "wasteful  and 
superfluous  excess ; ' ' — would  be,  in  the  fine  language  of  one  of 
our  sublimest  bards, 

in  his  age,  as  a  distinction  vying  in  greatness  with  those  of  the  finest 
ages  of  the  world;  this  same  Bang  of  Prussia  hath  totally  changed 
the  principles  of  war,  by  giving  in  some  measure  to  the  legs  an 
advantage  over  the  arms;  that  is  to  say,  that  by  the  rapidity  of  his 
evolutions,  and  the  celerity  of  his  marches,  he  hath  always  excelled 
his  enemies,  even  when  he  hath  not  conquered  them,  all  the  nations 
of  Europe  have  been  obliged  to  imitate  his  example,  in  order  not  to 
be  obliged  to  submit  to  him.  He  will  enjoy  the  glory,  since  it  is  one, 
of  having  raised  the  art  of  war  to  a  degree  of  perfection,  from 
which,  fortunately,  it  cannot  degenerate."  (Abbe  Reynal,  4th  vol., 
p.  452,  "  Settlem.  of  East  and  West  Indies.") 

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"To  gild  refined  gold,  to  paint  the  lily; 
To  throw  perfume  on  the  violet: 
To  smooth  the  ice;  to  add  another  hue 
Unto  the  rainbow;  or  with  taper  light 
To  seek  the  beauteous  eye  of  Heav'n  to  garnish." 

Another  interesting  item  of  our  history  is  the 
number  of  applications  made  to  the  Provincial  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  for  warrants  for  new  Lodges 
from  the  time  that  the  independence  of  the  United 
Colonies  was  virtually  assured  until  the  Grand  Lodge 
itself  declared  its  independence.  The  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania,  ever  conservative  as  it  was,  was  held 
in  such  esteem  throughout  the  country  and  the  West 
Indies,  that  both  before  and  after  asserting  its  inde- 
pendence in  1786,  there  were  more  applications  for 
warrants  made  and  granted  by  this  jurisdiction  than 
by  all  the  other  ones  in  this  country  combined. 

Thus  we  find  that  our  Grand  Lodge  between  the 
years  1780  and  1786  warranted  Lodges  in  Maryland 
4,  Pennsylvania  6,  New  Jersey  2,  Delaware  2,  South 
Carolina  3,  Virginia  2,  Georgia  1,  Cape  Francois  1. 

Among  other  matters  of  Masonic  interest  during 
this  year  was  the  presentation  of  the  first  petition  to 
the  new  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  from  a  num- 
ber of  brethren  of  Lodge  No.  2,  who  intended  to 
withdraw  from  their  lodge  and  asking  that  a  warrant 
might  be  granted  for  holding  another  Lodge  in  the 
City  of  Philadelphia.  This  prayer  was  granted  at 
the  Grand  Lodge  held  in  December  18,  1786.      The 

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new  lodge  was  warranted  as  No.  19,  with  Thomas 
Proctor,  W.  M.,  Charles  Young,  S.  W.,  and  John 
Melbeck,  J.  W.,  thus  virtually  reviving  the  warrant 
of  the  old  Military  Lodge  attached  to  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Artillery  Regiment.  Following  is  a  list  of 
members  of  the  original  Lodge  No.  19,  who  applied 
for  Grand  Lodge  certificates  during  the  year  1780,  one 
of  which,  that  of  Colonel  Elias  Dayton,  is  on  ex- 
hibition in  the  Grand  Lodge  library:  General  William 
Maxwell,  Colonel  Elias  Dayton,  Rev.  Doctor  Andrew 
Hunter,  Major  John  Hollingshead,  Captain  Aaron 
Ogden,  Captain  Joseph  T.  Anderson,  Captain  John 
Santford,  Lieutenant  Derrick  Lane,  Lieutenant  John 
Peck,  Lieutenant  Anthony  Maxwell,  Lieutenant  Peter 
Tallman,  Lieutenant  Will"  Piatt,  Bro.  John  Van 
Anglon,  Captain  Ja^  Pendleton,  Captain  John  Kean, 
Mr.  Thos  Armstrong  A.  Q.  M. 

If  we  turn  back  to  the  records  of  the  original 
Military  Lodge  No.  19,  attached  to  the  Artillery  Regi- 
ment commanded  by  Col.  Proctor  it  will  be  seen  from 
these  records  that  when  called  into  active  service 
Colonel  Proctor  was  Worshipful  Master  of  Lodge 
No.  2.  He  then  vacated,  for  the  time  being,  his 
office  as  Master  of  No.  2,  but  immediately  assumed 
the  same  station  ui  Lodge  No.  19,  without  giving  up 
his  membership  in  Lodge  No.  2. 

Among  several  packages  of  old  musty  papers 
lately   resurrected  from   among  the   archives   of   the 

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BORN   PHILADELPHIA,   PA.,   AUGUST   8     1746 
DIED  WILMINGTON,  DEL.,   MAY  22,   1829. 


lEbc  Close  of  the  provincial  6ran^  %o^qc 


Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  yellow  with  age  and  covered 
with  the  dnst  of  a  century,  there  was  one  containing 
the  applications  of  members  for  Grand  Lodge  certi- 
ficates, covering  the  period  from  1780  to  1786,  when 
the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  ceased  to  exist,  by  de- 
claring itself  free  and  independent.  The  following 
applications  from  brethren  of  Lodge  No.  2  were  found 
in  the  package: 

Captain  Alexander  Thomson  Ogilvie,  January  14, 
1780.  Signed  by  Jaco.  Bankson,  Master  Lodge  No. 
2.  Endorsement:  "Assist.  Waggon  Master  for  Two 
years  from  1^'  Feby.,  1778,  to  1'*  Jan'.-Feby,  1780. 
Captains  Rank  in  Militia,  In  the  Pay  Eations." 

Brother  Allen  McLane,^  February  28,  1780.    Signed 

'  McLane,  Allen,  bom  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  August  8,  1746,  and 
removed  to  Kent  County,  Delaware,  1774.  In  1775  was  appointed 
Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Caesar  Rodney's  Regiment  of  Delaware 
Militia,  and  in  1776  joined  Washington's  army  and  was  distinguished 
in  actions  at  Long  Island,  at  White  Plains,  Trenton  and  Pi'ineeton. 
Commissioned  Captain  and  assigned  to  Colonel  John  Patton's  Addi- 
tional Continental  Regiment,  January  13,  1777.  His  partisan 
company  was  in  service  on  outposts  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  during  its 
occupation  by  enemy,  1777-1778;  attached  to  Delaware  Regiment, 
Continental  Establishment,  December  16,  1778,  and  to  Major  Lee's 
Partisan  Corj^s,  July  13,  1779;  present  at  siege  of,  and  surrender 
at,  Yorktown,  and  retired  from  service,  November  9,  1782.  After 
the  war  settled  at  Smyrna  Delaware,  was  a  member  and  Speaker  of 
the  Delaware  Legislature,  for  six  years  was  a  privy  councillor,  for 
many  years  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  and  United 
States  Marshal  of  the  Delaware  District  from  1790  to  1798.  Also 
Collector  of  the  Port  of  Wilmington  from  1808  to  date  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  May  22,  1829.  Buried  in  Asbury  Church  cemetery, 
Wilmington,  Delaware. 

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by  the  Master,  Senior  and  Junior  "Wardens  and  Secre- 
tary. 

Jaco.  Bankson 

Mas".  Lodge  No.  2 
Saml.  Jervis  S.  W. 
Wm.   C.   Beadfoed   J.   W 
Geoege  a.  Baker 

Secretary  Lodge  No.  2 
Bro.  Lemuel  Savadge,  March  7,  1780. 
Bro.    John    Angus,    March    15,    1780.       Endorsed: 
''Grand  Certificate  granted  March  15,  1780." 
Bro.  Charles  Jones,  August  9,  1780. 
Bro.  Henry  Hilton,  October  3,  1780. 
Bro.  John  Bartram,  Jr.,  May  25,  1781.     Endorsed: 
"Granted  W.  Moore  Smith,  G.  Sec'y." 
Bro.  Stephen  Gregorj^,  December  1,  1780. 
Bro.  Thomas  "White. 

Philad^  25  Nov.  1782 
Sir 

Our  Brother  Lieut.  Thomas  White,  a  regularly 
rais'd  free  mason  in  Lodge  No.  2,  has  applied  to  me 
for  a  certificate  of  his  being  such,  in  consequence  of 
his  going  abroad.  Wherefore  request  you  will  grant 
him  one  with  the  grand  Seal  aflfix*^,  expressive  of  his 
being  a  worthy  brother,  and  deserving  of  such  a  testi- 
mony of  merit  from  his  Lodge,  which  I  am  happy  to 
assure  you  is  my  sentiments  of  him. 

With  brotherly  Esteem  I  am  Dr  sir 

Yrs  affty 
no 


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Bro.  Jos.  Howell,  Sec  G.  L.    Chas.  Young,  Mr.  No.  2. 

Endorsed:  ''Grand  Certificate  granted  the  30'^ 
Nov.,  1782." 

Bro.  David  Hamilton,  December  26,  1782. 

Bro.  Edward  Weyman,  December  26,  1782.  En- 
dorsed: ''Can  only  add  that  as  Master  of  No.  2  I  am 
sorry  that  the  Lodge  is  likely  to  become  a  sufferer 
by  Brother  Weymans  quiting  ns."  Richard  Wistar, 
Mr.  No.  2. 

Bro.  Isaac  Melcher,^^  14'^  February,  1783. 

Bro.  William  Keeler,  18'^  February,  1783.  "A 
worthy  good  Brother." 

Bro.  Gifford  Dally,  March  27,  1783.  "His  business 
calls  him  to  another  State." 

Bro.  John  Irwin. 
Sir 

Capt.  John  Irwin  who  sets  off  to  morrow  morning 
for  Balto.  to  settle  there,  begs  me  to  request  you  to 
grant  him  a  certificate.  I  vouch  for  him  to  be  a 
Master  Mason  of  Lodge  No.  2,  and  no  objections  to 
his  character  since  he  has  entered  the  fraternity,  Mr. 
Ferral  will  inform  you  what  he  is  due  to  the  Lodge, 
which  with  your  fee,  I  shall  see  paid  this  Evening. 

Geo  Hopes,  Sec"  No.  2. 

Philad^  27^^  May,  1783. 

""  Bro.  Isaac  Melcher  was  one  of  the  prominent  German  citizens 
of  Philadelphia,  who  actively  espoused  the  Patriot  cause.  This 
family  consisted  of  three  brothers — Adam,  Isaac  and  Leonard  all 
active  members  of  Lodge  No.  2  as  well  as  of  the  Gennan  Society 
of  Pennsylvania. 

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Bro.  John  Quin,  November  17,  1784.  ''Has 
behaved  himself  as  becomes  a  true  and  faithful 
Brother." 

Bro.  Major  Thomas  Bartholomew  Bowen,  8'^  of 
May,  1785.  ''He  has  behaved  as  a  good  member, 
and  paid  up  his  Lodge  Dues." 

Bro.  Jacob  G.  Koch,  8"^  of  May,  1785. 

Bro.  Anthony  Joseph  Ferrara  Roche,  July  21,  1785. 

Bro.  Eobert  Crozier,  November  10,  1785. 

Bro.  Louis  Dorsiere,  May  8,  1786.  "He  hath  paid 
up  all  Lodge  dues  and  during  his  continuance  among 
us  hath  behaved  himself  as  a  true  and  worthy 
Brother. ' '  Signed  by  Alex.  Rutherford,  Master ;  Jno. 
Bartram,  Jr.,  S.  W. ;  Jos.  Dean,  J.  W. 

Bro.  Fredrik  William  Starman,  May  22,  1786.  Re- 
grets "that  he  will  be  deprived  of  that  singular  hap- 
piness, which  he  so  often  enjoyed  in  your  meetings." 

The  Masonic  year  of  5786  was  fittingly  closed  by 
a  procession  and  religious  services  in  St.  Paul's 
Church  on  St.  John  the  Evangelist's  Day,  December 
27,  the  proceeds  of  which  went  to  the  relief  of  the 
poor.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  Joseph 
Pilmore,  the  prayer  by  Rev.  Bro.  Samuel  Magaw. 
Both  were  published  in  separate  editions  in  Phila- 
delphia and  New  York  and  were  dedicated  to  Bro. 
Benjamin  Franklin— "An  illustrious  Brother,  whose 
distinguished  Merit  among  Masons,  Entitles  him  to 
their  highest  veneration." 

8  113 


SERMON, 

PREACHED  in  St.  PAULS  CHURCH 

PHILADELPHIA, 

On  IFE  D  N  E  S  D  AYy    ^vK   December^    I72(^. 

BEING     THE 

Anniverfary  of  St.   JOHN   the 
Evangelist  : 

FOR  THE  RELIEF  OF  THE  POOR  : 

BEFORE  THE  HONOURABLE  FRATERNITY  OF 

The  FREE  AND  AC  CEPTE  D    MASONS 

Of  PENNSYLVANIA, 

By  the  Rev.     JOSEPH      PILMORE, 

Reftorof  the  united  Churches  of  Trinity,  St.  Thomas,  and  All-Saints. 

H    OIaAAEaOIA    MENETtt 

N    E    iV.ro     R    K: 

PRINTED   AND   SOLD    BY    "WILLIAM    DUREXL,    AT. 

HI&    BOOK-STORE    AND    PRINTING-OFFICE 

NO.    19,    Q.UEEN-STREET. 

MjDCCjXClll. 

114  Title  Page  to  Chaeity  Sermon,  1786. 


^be  Cloee  of  the  provincial  6rant)  XoDge 


To    His   EXGFXLENCY 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN,  Efq. 
Prefident  of    the  Supreme  Executive  Coun- 
cil of  the  State  of 
Pennfylvania  : 
A  mofl:  fublime  Philofopher  ; 
The  Friend  of  his  Country, 
A  great  and  fuccefsful     Aflerter  of 

Liberty,  with  all  the  Rights 

EfTential  to  the  happinefs  of  human 

Nature  : 

An  illuftrious  Brother, 

Whofe  diftinguifhed  Merit  among 

Mafons 
Entitles  him  to  their  higheft.  Vene- 
ration ; 
Whofe  Eminent  and  long  eftablifhed 

Virtues 
Endear  him  to  his  fellow  Citizens  r 

As  a  fmall  Teftimony  of  the 
Moft  fincere  and  cordial  AiFedion, 
The  following  Sermon 
Is  very  refpcAfully  infcribed. 

By  the  AUTHOR. 

Dedication  of  Chaeity  Seemon,  1786. 


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X730— jfreemasonr^  in  pcnnei^lvania— X907 

January  9,  :Z7(S6^.— Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro  A 
Rutherford  Master,  Twelve  members,  five  Visitors:  — 
W"  Adcock  R.  W.  G.  M,-Jas.  Whitehead  D.  G.  Sec'y 
—J.  Martin— J.  Hammet— M.  Whitehead. 

A  Masters  Lodge  was  opened  in  due  Form,  when 
the  R.  W  Grand  Master  then  present  informed  the 
Lodge  that  Bro.  James  Whitehead,  Member  of  Lodge 
No  3,  was  appointed  their  Deputy  Grand  Secretary, 
and  was  pleased  to  order  s*^  Brother  to  pass  the  Chair 
being  inconvenient  for  the  Grand  Lodge  to  call  a 
Grand  Lodge  for  that  purpose.  The  Master  Masons 
then  present  withdrew  and  s^  Bro.  Whitehead  was 
passed  the  Chair  with  the  usual  ceremonies  necessary 
on  the  occasion. 

Mr  John  Dentzel  a  Modern  Mason,  being  favor- 
ably reported,  was  ballotted  for  and  found  worthy. 

Bro  W"  Kunkel  applied  for  a  Lodge  Certificate— 

Resolved,  that  the  members  pay  their  Lodge  dues 
every  stated  night  to  the  Treasurer — The  Secretary 
is  ordered  to  issue  out  Special  Summons  to  every 
member  to  attend  next  Stated  Night  and  pay  up  his 
Lodge  dues. 

February  13,  i7<S^.— Stated  Lodge— Present  A. 
Rutherford  Master— Ten  Members,  and  James 
Grant,  a  Visitor 


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REV.    JOSEPH     PILMORE. 


BORN    ENGLAND,    OCTOBER    31,    1730;      DIED    PHILADELPHIA,    JULY    24,    1825. 
FROM   COPY   IN    POSSESSION  OF  NORRIS  S.    BARRATT. 


^he  CIO0C  ot  tbc  provincial  (Brant)  XoDoe 

A7i  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Bros. 
Knnkel— Angus— Evans— and  Wadman,  paid  up  their 
Lodge  dues— making  in  the  whole  £  9—1—8. 

Bros.  Rutherford  —  Kunckel  —  Evans  —  Angus  — 
Dorsiere— Dean— Wadman  and  Westcott  paid  Each 
1  Shill.  10|  d.  for  Refreshments.— 

February  25,  i7<S(?.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro 
A  Rutherford  Masf— ten  members— three  Visitors:— 
Delaney  N°  3— G.  Hamilton— Wilson 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form— A 
dispensation  from  the  R  W.  G.  M.  in  favor  of  M" 
Jno  Clark  of  Yorktown  was  read— balloted  for— 
approved  and  Entered.  Lodge  closed  and  a  F.  C 
lodge  opened  when  Bro  Clark  was  passed  to  the  de- 
gree of  a  F.  C. 

February  27,  i7S^.— Extra  Lodge  held  at  Lodge 
room  N°  3  in  Videll's  Alley.  Present  Bro  Alex 
Rutherford  W.  M.— Thos.  Proctor  S.  W.  pt— Jacob 
Bankson  J.  W.  pt.— Andrew  Bankson  S.  D.  pt  (No 
13)— Nuvark  (No  3)  J.  D.  pt— Asheton  Humphreys 
Sec'y  p.  t.— Benj.  Nones— W.  Shirtliff— P.  Wadman 
—Jno.  Milbeck— Solomon  Etting.  Seven  Visitors— 
James  Whitehead— John  Whitehead— John  Hammel 
W^  Richardson— Landenberger— Few— Haley. 

A  Masters  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  Form,  Bro 
John  Clark  was  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree  of  a 
Master  Mason. 

March  13,  i78^.— Stated  Lodge— present  Bro  Alex. 

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Rutlierford— Six  Members— three  Visitors— Bros 
Delany  P.  M.  N°  3— Willson  and  Jackson. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form— A 
note  from  Lodge  No  4  to  No  2— giving  Notice,  that 
John  Hamilton  and  John  Kackler  both  of  this  City 
were  balloted  for  and  rejected. 

March  28,  iZS^.— Extra  Lodge,  held  at  Lodge  Room 
No  3  in  Videll's  Alley— Present  Bro  Alex  Ruther- 
ford Masf  Nine  Members,— Eleven  Visitors. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form  a  Dis- 
pensation from  the  R.  W.  Gr.  Master  in  favor  of 
Richard  Burland  of  Baltimore  was  read,  and  being 
warmly  recomended  by  Bro  Proctor  and  others,  and 
there  being  no  objection  he  was  balloted  for  ap- 
proved and  Entered— The  expenses  of  the  night  were 
paid  by  Bro  Burland,  and  no  Collection  was  made. 

March  29,  iZS^.- Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro  Alex. 
Rutherford— ten  members  and  nine  Visitors. 

A.  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Bro  Bur- 
land was  passed  to  the  degree  of  a  F.  C. — 

April  10,  i7<S<>.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  Alex 
Rutherford  Masf— John  Bartram,  S.  W.— Joseph 
Dean,  J.  W  John  Irwin  S.  D.  pt— John  Melbeck— 
J.  D.  Robert  Crozier  Sec'y-  Ash.  Humphreys— Jacob 
Bankson.— Praise  Wadman— Louis  Dorsiere.— Visi- 
tors—Bros   Wilson— Hansf  old— Goffegin—Bankson. — 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— On  Motion 
of  the  W.  M.  and  Seconded  it  is  ordered  that  each 
member  of  this  Lodge  furnish  himself  with  an  apron, 

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^be  Close  of  the  provincial  (Brant)  XoDge 

and  the  W.  M.  is  appointed  to  furnish  the  Lodge  with 
eighteen  new  aprons  for  the  use  of  Visiting  brethren 

An  E.  A.  Lecture  was  given  by  the  W.  Master. 

May  8,  i7<S<>.— Stated  Lodge— Present.  Bro  Alex 
Rutherford  W.  M— Eight  members.— ten  Visitors. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— The  W.  M 
furnished  the  Lodge  with  24  new  aprons— Cost  28 
Shillings. 

Mr  Geo  Knox  who  petitioned  this  Lodge  the  12*'' 
Dec""  last  as  a  Modern  Mason  proved  upon  Examina- 
tion to  be  an  Antient  Mason,  balloted  for  and  ad- 
mitted. 

Bros.  Charles  Brown  and  Greo  Knox  having  pre- 
sented the  Lodge  two  Marble  pillars  ^  five  orders  of 
Architecture  as  a  free  Gift,  the  W.  M.  in  the  name 
of  the  Lodge  returned  the  Lodges  thanks  to  them  for 
the  same. 

The  W.  M.  then  gave  an  E.  A.  Lecture. 

Eeceived  for  Refreshment  24/  4^d. 

Received  of  Bro  John  Teller  £  1—7—3.  which  we 
suppose  to  be  his  Lodge  dues  (Exclusive  of  the  Ten 
years  which  he  was  absent)  which  the  Lodge  thought 
proper  to  forgive,  as  Bro  Teller  applied  before  he 
went  away  for  a  Certificate,  butt  for  want  of  time 
could  not  obtain  it. 

June  20,  i78^.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro  Alex 
Rutherford  Masf— Jno  Bartram  S.  W.— Joseph  Dean, 
J.  W.-Jno  McLean  S.  D-Chas.  Brown  J.  D.  Geo. 
Wescott,   Treasurer.     Robt.   Crozier,   Sec'y.      Praise 

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Wadman   Rev.   W"    Smith.— Docf    Smith.      Visitors 
Jno.  Starling— Bros  Carrel  and  Cattrell. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form.  This 
being  a  Lodge  Called  for  the  purpose  of  choosing 
officers  for  the  ensuing  Six  Months,  we  proceeded  to 
the  Election,  and  we  elected  as  follows:— viz:— 

Bro  Isaac  Pennington  Master        Bro  McLean  S.  D 

"     Joseph  Bartram     S.  W.  "     Brown  J  D 

"    Joseph  Dean  J.  W  "     Wadman        Steward 

"    Wescott  Treasurer     "     Robt  Crozier  Sec'y 

Bros  Bartram— Dean  and  Wescott  are  appointed 
a  committe  to  inform  him  of  his  being  elected  Master 
for  the  ensuing  six  Months. — 

The  Secretary  is  ordered  to  issue  summons  for  the 
members  to  meet  here  on  Saturday  10  0 'Clock  being 
St  John's  Day. 

Pd  Bro.  Wadman  for  Refreshments  £  1—4—3. 

We  have  no  minute  as  to  St.  John  the  Baptist's 
Day,  June  24,  1786.  That  it  was  kept,  with  the 
usual  feast  and  attendant  social  feature,  is  shown  by 
the  following  musical  program,  a  copy  of  which  has 
fortunately  come  down  to  us: 

The  feast  of  St.  John  the  Baptist's  Day,  1786,  was 
celebrated  with  considerable  ceremony.  Unfortunately 
no  minute  was  made  of  it— the  only  thing  that  has 
come  down  to  us  from  that  festive  occasion  is  the  fol- 
lowing ode  sung  by  the  Brethren : 

For  the  Festival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  June  24,  5786. 

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Ebe  Close  ot  tbe  provincial  6ranD  Xot)ge 

Addressed   to   the    Worshipful   Master   and   Brethren   of 
Lodge  No.  2  of  Ancient  York  Masons,  Philadelphia. 

Tribus  aut  novem 
Miscenter  Cyathis  Pociila  conunodis. 

Qui  Musas  amat  impares, 

Ternos  ter  Cyathos  attonitus  petet 

Vates: Horace. 

Full  Chorus 

Jove  in  his  Chair, 

Hail  Masonry! 

Blest  beam  from  on  high ! 

Let  thy  aid, 

Here  display 'd. 

Our  bosoms  refine: 
To  Saint  John, 
Raise  the  song; 
Let  our  lays : 
Sound  the  praise 

Of  Masonry  divine. 

Swift  from  the  skies. 

The  white-rob 'd  Seraph  flies; 

Sent  by  Jove, 

From  above. 

With  a  pure  spotless  train. 
From  on  high,  in  her  eye, 
We  descry,  sjanpathy, 
When  she  smiles, 
She  beguiles 

Grief  and  pain. 

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The  muses  inspire, 
To  join  the  loud  choir, 

And  echo  the  joyous  glad  strain. 

Recitative 

On  out-stretched  wings  of  radiant  cherubs  borne, 
More  bright  than  evening  bow,  or  ruddy  morn ; 
With  her,  lo !  charity  from  Heaven  descends, 
And  glorious  freedom  in  her  train  attends. 

Song. 
Serenely  meek  in  smiles  array 'd, 

Seraphic  ardours  on  her  wait, 
Celestial  virtues  shine  display 'd, 

Celestial   pomp   adorns  her   state. 

Recitative 
Around  her  throne,  obsequious  move, 
Soft  compassion,  pious  love. 
Melting  pity,  hopes  that  cheer. 
And  from  the  wretched  drives  despair: 
Divine  benevolence  before  her  stands, 
Grace  in  her  smiles,  and  bounty  in  her  hands. 

Air. 
She  comes,  religion  to  restore, 

To  banish  care  from  ev'ry  breast; 
To  raise  the  sick,  relieve  the  poor, 

And  give  the  weak  and  weary 'd  rest. 

All  hail !  celestial  goddess  hail ! 

O  Masonry  sublime ! 
Propitious  spread  thy  sacred  veil, 

And  cover  ev'ry  crime. 
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^be  Close  ot  tbe  iprovincial  (5ran^  XoD^c 

Thy  sacrifice  all  sin  attones, 
And  still  accepted  mounts  on  high ; 

You  ease  the  wretched  brother's  groans, 
You  wipe  the  tear  from  sorrow 's  eye. 

You  brighten  ev'ry  mortal  gloom, 
You  soften  anguish,  banish  strife ; 

You  smooth  our  passage  to  the  tomb. 
And  fit  us  for  eternal  life. 

Eecitative 
As  Phoebus  in  the  radiant  east  displays 
His  glorious  orb,  and  sends  abroad  his  rays. 
The  life-inspiring  influence  spreading  round, 
To  cheer  mankind,  and  fructify  the  ground : 
Within  our  sacred  walls  the  goddess  stands. 
Her  train,  attentive,  wait  our  just  commands 
Forth  at  the  word  each  willing  cherub  springs, 
And  scatters  blessings  from  its  ambient  wings ; 
Knowledge  to  some,  and  happiness  to  all. 
Where  e  'er  dispers  'd  around  the  spacious  ball. 

Air, 

Devote  to  thee 
There  goddess  see 
Thy  vot'ries  knell! 
They  fervent  feel 

Thy  soul-exalting  fire. 
Rejoic  'd  they  rise, 
Above  the  skies, 

Where  heav'nly  minds  aspire, 
Celestial  guest, 
Inflame  each  breast, 
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With  social  ardours,  mutual  love ! 

Still,  more  refin'd, 

Make  human  kind, 
'Till  each  be  like  the  blest  above. 

Recitative 

Hail  Masonry — thou  principal  divine ! 

In  which,  unnumbered  joys  incessant  shine ; 

Whose  heav'nly  influence  dilates  the  mind, 

That  glows  with  charity  to  all  mankind; 

Thou  perfect  emblem  of  the  bliss  above 

He  dwells  in  God,  who  dwells  in  boundless  love. 

Song.    Dorsetshire  March. 

Let  brethren  join  hands  in  support  of  their  laws, 
For  Heav'n  smiles  on  us,  and  prospers  our  cause: 
The  Lodge  which  arose  under  holy  Saint  John, 
New  lustre  receives  under  Great  Washington. 

Then  enter  the  holy  of  holies  again, 

With  innocence  blest,  and  with  hands  pure  from  stain; 

Our  patron  shall  smile  from  the  regions  above. 

And  crown  us  with  peace  and  with  brotherly  love. 

Grand  Chorus. 
PHmADELPHiA,  June  24,  5786. 

July  10,  i7<9(>.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  Alex. 
Rutherford  Masf— A.  Humphreys,  S.  W— T.  Proctor, 
J.  W.  J.  McLean,  S.  D-C  Brown  J.  D.-R.  Crozier, 
Sec'y  M.  Cohen.— Visitors  Bro.  Duplicee  P.  M.  1st 
time  [Du  Plessis]  Danl  Cassel— Alex  Christie— Cot- 
terel— Fitzgerrald. 

A  Master  Masons  Lodge  opened  in  due  Form,  when 

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^be  Close  of  tbe  provincial  6ran^  %o^qc 

Bro.  Tlios.  Proctor  verbally  petitioned  the  Lodge  for 
the  initiation  of  Doct.  Jacob  Tobey  of  Chester.  Re- 
ferred to  Bros  Humphreys,  Proctor  and  McLean. 

A  petition  was  read  from  Bro  John  Park  requesting 
the  loan  of  Twenty  five  guineas,  for  which  he  offers 
Bros  Eleazer  Oswald  &  Thomas  Proctor  Security,  it 
was  moved  by  the  W.  M.  and  Carried  that  the  Lodge 
should  let  Bro  Park  have  the  Sum  of  £  43—15—0,  if 
the  Treasurer  has  as  much  in  the  funds.  And  to 
take  Bro.  Park's  note  for  the  same  endorsed  by  Bros 
Procter  &  Oswald. 

Bro  Duplicee  [Duplessis]  proposed  renting  this 
Lodge  a  Room.  The  W.  M.  &  Bro  Humphreys  are 
appointed  a  Com.mittee  to  view  the  Room  and  report 
next  Stated  Night— Pd  for  Refreshments  14/6 

July  27,  i7<S<?.— Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro  A. 
Humphreys  Masf— five  Members. 

A  Master  Masons  Lodge  opened  in  due  form 

Bro.  Pennington  our  Master  elect  having  declared 
to  that  he  could  not  serve  in  the  office  which  he  was 
elected.  The  Lodge  went  into  another  election  when 
Bro  Asheton  Humphreys  was  duly  elected  Master. 
The  W.  M.  who  was  one  of  the  Committe  appointed 
last  stated  night  to  view  Bro  Duplessis  Room,  Made 
report  that  the  Room  would  not  Answer,  he  at  the 
same  time  informed  the  Lodge  that  they  should  be  at 
no  loss  for  want  of  a  Room  for  they  could  have  the 
use  of  the  Sublime  Lodge.^ 

^  This  lodge  room  was  in  Black  Horse  Alley  east  of  Second  Street. 

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The  Secretary  is  ordered  to  issue  Summons  for  the 
Members  to  Meet  here  on  Tuesday  next  at  8  0 'Clock 
in  the  Morning  for  the  Installment  of  Officers— 

August  6,  1786.— 'Extra  Lodge.  Present  Bro  Alex 
—Rutherford,  Masf— John  Bartram  S.  W.— Joseph 
Dean,  J.  W.— Abram  Jones  S.  D.  pt.— Chas.  Brow  J. 
D.— George  Wescott,  Treas.— Robt.  Crozier,  Sec'y— 
Asheton  Humphreys— Thomas  Proctor— Peace  Weid- 
man. 

A.  M.  M  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form,  when  the 
following  Brethren  were  installed  according  to  "An- 
tient  "  usage:— Viz:— Asheton  Humphreys,  W.  M. 
J.  Bartram,  S.  W.— Jos.  Dean,  J.  W.— Geo.  Wescott, 
Treas.  Robt  Crozier  Sec'y. 

Lodge  Closed  in  Harmony  at  half  past  10  0 'Clock 
in  the  Morning. 

August  13,  i78^.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  A. 
Humphreys  W.  M— Eight  Members  and  Jno  Starling 
No  44^  a  Visitor. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  Dr  Jacob 
Tobin  was  balloted  for,  approved  and  Entered— Bro 
Jacob  Bankson  was  appointed  his  Guardian 

A  petition  was  read  from  Martha  Walker  for  an 
allowance.  The  petition  appearing  to  have  been  ad- 
dressed to  Lodge  No  3,  the  sense  of  the  Body  being 
taken  it  was  thought  advisable  that  the  Petition  be 
returned  to  No  3.  and  upon  their  recomendation  or  the 

*  Lodge  44,  held  at  Duck  Creek  Cross  Roads,  Delaware,  waiTant 
granted  June  24,  17S5. 

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XTbe  Close  of  the  provincial  (5ran^  %o^qc 

knowledge  of  other  persons  the  Matter  undergo  an 
'^Invistigation"  at  the  next  Stated  Lodge  night,  but 
under  the  present  circumstances  the  Lodge  cannot 
consider  it  an  object  of  their  Attention 

A  petition  was  read  from  Bro  Fdk.  W"  Starman 
(now  a  resident  in  New  York)  dated  22*^  May  request- 
ing a  Certificate,— So  ordered  after  paying  all  Lodge 
dues  until  the  date  of  the  petition. 

The  Sublime  Lodge  having  offered  this  Lodge  the 
use  of  their  Koom,  it  is  agreed  that  this  Lodge  meet 
there  for  three  Months  on  such  terms  as  shall  be 
agreeable  to  the  Members  of  the  Sublime  Lodge. 

Bros.  Rutherford— Dean  &  Wadman  are  appointed 
a  Committe  to  remove  the  furniture  of  this  Lodge  to 
the  Sublime  Lodge. 

The  s*^  Committe  are  authorized  to  rent  a  place  for 
Bro.  Beck  for  three  months  after  his  leaving  this 
place  at  the  expense  of  this  Lodge— 

September  11,  17<S^.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro 
A.  Humphreys  W.  M.  Eight  Members— four  Visitors : 
—Bros  Josiah  Haines— Lawson— Watt— Hamell. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge,  opened  in  due  form.  A  dispensa- 
tion from  the  E.  W.  G.  Master  was  read  in  favor  of 
Mr  Thos.  Clark  Trotman— balloted  for,  found  worthy 
and  Entered.  An  Application  for  Charity  was  re- 
ceived from  Archibald  McBride  of  Lodge  No  213.— 
Eeferred  to  the  Standing  Committe  on  Charity. 
Lodge  Closed— 

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A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  when  Bro  Clark  Trotman, 
was  passed  to  the  degree  of  a  F.  C. 

September  21,  i75^.— Extra  Lodge.  Present— Bro 
A.  Humphreys  W.  M.— Nine  Members— Six  Visitors: 
—Bro  Delany  No  3— Hamilton  No  3— Jones  No  4— 
Stubin— Gronovoly,  No  149— Marshall. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form;  and  by 
virtue  of  two  Dispensations  from  the  R.  W.  G.  Master, 
following  Gentlemen  were  balloted  for  Seperately— 
found  worthy  and  received  the  first  step  in  Masonry: 
Viz — Florence  Donovan  and  Abram  Bickley. — 

Bro  John  Park,  made  this  Lodge  a  present  of  a 
Book  entitled  the  ''Use  and  Abuse  of  Freemasonry" 
by  Bro  Capt  Smith  of  Woolwich,  The  W.  M.  returned 
the  Lodges  thanks  to  Bro  Park  for  the  same. 

A  petition  was  read  from  Bro  Samuel  Gionovoly  of 
No  149  So.  Carolina  praying  some  Assistance— re- 
ferred to  Committe  on  Charity— 

Bro  Rutherford  was  appointed  Guardian  to  Bro. 
Donovan,  and  Bro.  Crozier  to  Bro  Bickley,  to  instruct 
them  in  the  mysteries  of  the  first  step  in  Masonry. 

October  9,  i7S^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  Bro  A. 
Humphreys  W.  M.     Eight  Members. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge,  being  opened,  the  W.  M.  informed 
the  Lodge  that  the  Committe  on  Charity  had  given 
Bro  Gionovoly  a  distressed  Brother  thirty  shillings. 
Lodge  Closed. 

A  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  when  Bro  Thos.  C.  Trotman 
was  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree  of  a  M.  M.    Lodge 

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^be  Cloee  of  tbe  {Provincial  6ranD  %o^qc 


closed.      A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bro  Abram. 
Bickley  was  passed  to  the  degree  of  a  F.  C. 

Bro.  Proctor  informed  the  Lodge  that  Several  Mem- 
bers of  this  Lodge  having  petitioned  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania  for  a  Warrant,  and  that  it  was  neces- 
sary to  have  the  approbation  of  this  Lodge  to  with- 
draw upon  their  paying  up  their  dues,  he  therefore 
prayed  the  Approbation  of  this  Lodge  might  be 
granted  but  the  Lodge  being  thin  the  same  was  re- 
ferred to  the  next  Meeting. 

November  13,  i78^.— Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro  A. 
Humphreys  W.  M.   Seven  Members— Seven  Visitors 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  an  application  for  Mem- 
bership was  Made  by  Bro  Alex.  Moore  formerly  a 
Member  of  N°  4.  balloted  for  and  admitted 

The  W.  M.  presented  the  Lodge  with  the  Book  which 
was  given  to  this  Lodge  by  Bro  Park — The  W.  M.  in 
the  Name  of  the  Lodge  is  requested  to  return  the 
Lodge's  thanks  to  Bro  Park  for  the  Same. 

December  11,  i7S5.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
Bro  Humphreys— W.  M.  Seven  Members— Three 
Visitors.— 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened,  A  letter  was  read  from 
Thos  Craft— in  answer  to  one  which  Bro.  Rutherford 
had  written  him  on  the  subject  of  Monies  Bro  Von 
Morn  had  received  and  kept  in  his  hands— the  prop- 
erty of  this  Lodge  which  appeared  by  no  means  satis- 
factory, however  the  same  was  held  under  advisement. 

A  Letter  was  read  from  the  Dep.  Grand  Secretary 

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advising  this  Lodge  that  the  Grand  Lodge  on  Septem- 
ber Last  had  Declared  and  established  themselves  a 
Grand  Lodge  Independent  of  Great  Britain  or  any- 
other  Authority,  and  requesting  them  to  accept  a  fresh 
Warrant  under  the  said  Authority,  and  to  surrender 
the  old  one. 

Ordered  that  this  Lodge  do  surrender  up  their  Old 
Warrant  on  receiving  the  first  one  as  Mentioned  by 
the  Grand  Lodge. 

Bro  Proctor's  requisition  made  on  October  last  and 
held  under  advisement,  being  called  up,  it  was  agreed 
that  the  same  should  be  Complied  with. 

A  letter  was  read  from  the  Dep.  Gr.  Sec'y  relative 
to  returns  having  been  sent  to  them  from  sundry 
Lodges  under  this  Jurisdiction,  whereby  it  appeared 
they  had  expelled  a  number  of  Brethren  by  Virtue  of 
their  By-Laws.— Held  under  advisement.— 

Bro  Edw.  Evans  exhibited  a  Complaint  against 
Bro  W°  Milnor— Ordered  that  a  Committe  be  ap- 
pointed to  settle  the  same— Bros.  Wadman  and  Dean 
were  named  for  that  purpose— In  case  of  failure  in 
the  settlement  of  this  business,  by  the  said  Committe, 
the  Sec'y  is  hereby  required  to  send  Bro.  Milnor  a 
special  Summons  to  attend  the  Lodge  on  this  occasion, 
next  Stated  night.^ 

A  petition  was  presented  by  Jos.  Ellis  a  Modern 
Mason  referred  to  Bros  Eutherford  and  Dean  to  re- 
port thereon  next  Stated  Night. 

^  All  the  original  papers  of  this  controversy  are  still  in  the  Grand 
Lodge  Library. 

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PRAYER, 

DELIVERED  ik  St.  PAUL'*  CHURCH 

PHILADELPHIA, 

On  WEDNESDAY,    2ytk  December,    1786. 

BEING      THE 

Anniverfary  of  St.  John  the 
Evangelist; 

AFTER  THE    PROPER  DI V INE  SERVICE  OF  THE  DAT, 

A«d  it/ore  the  S  E  R  M  0  N 

TO  THE  HONORABLE  FRATERNITY  OP 

The  Free  and  Accepted  Masoks 
0/  PENNSYLVANIA. 

By  Dr.  M  A  G  A  W. 


PHILADELPHIA: 
Printed     by     ELEAZER     OSWALD, 

AT     THE    CoFFEE-HouSE, 

M,DCC,LXXXVII* 

PRAYER    REPEATED    IN    1793. 
FOR    FULL   TEXT   OF   THIS    PRAYER    SEE    PAGE    193    ET.    SEQ. 

ORIGINAL  IN  GRAND  LODGE  LIBRARY. 


Fhiladdphia,  jfaiiuary  2,   1787. 

In    grand    lodge, 

RESOLVED  that  thefmcere  Thanh  of  this  Lodge 
be  given  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  UAGAW,  Jorhii 
excellent  Prayer  delivered,  by  him  on  St.  John's  Day 
lajl ;  and  that  the  Committee  appointed  to  arrange 
the  Order  of  that  Day^  acquaint  him  with  this  Re- 
Jolution^  and  f elicit  the  Prayer  for  Publication.  Al' 
fOi  that  Mr.  ADGATE  be  waited  on  by  them^  and 
informed  of  the  grateful  Senfe  the  Brethren  entertain 
of  his  polite  Attention  to  their  Requejly  in  caufing 
the  Uranian  Society  to  attend  and  fing  the  Anthem 
annexed^  which  they  are  alfo  required  to  requeft  far 
Publication. 

Attefl, 

ASSHETON  HUMPHREYS,  G.  Sec'ry. 


ZTbe  Close  of  tbc  provincial  (Brant)  %o^qc 

Bros.  Hamilton  and  Thompson  a  Committe  from 
the  Sublime  Lodge  applied  to  this  Lodge  in  order  to 
settle  the  terms  on  which  they  are  to  continue  to 
occupy  this  room.  Bros  Wadman  and  Dean  are  ap- 
pointed to  adjust  the  same,  with  the  said  Committe 
from  the  sublime  Lodge.— Adjourned  until  Next  Mon- 
day Evening. 

December  33,  1786.— 'Extra  Lodge— Present— Bro. 
A.  Humphreys  W.  M.  J.  Bartram,  S.  W.— T.  Proctor 
J.  W.-R.  Crozier,  Sec'y.-T.  Rice,-M.  Cohen,-J. 
Gostelowe— Visitor— Bro  J.  Martin. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— This  being 
a  Lodge  called  for  the  purpose  of  chusing  Officers  for 
the  ensuing  Six  Months.— We  proceed  to  the  election, 
and  were  chosen  and  duly  elected,  as  follows:  Bro 
John  Bartram  Master— Bro.  Jos.  Dean  S.  W.  Bro. 
Thos.  Rice  J.  W.— Bro  Humphreys  Treas.— Bro  Robt 
Crozier,  Sec 'y.— It  was  moved  by  Bro.  Proctor  to  pro- 
ceed for  the  installment  of  Officers,  and  Seconded,  and 
accordingly  this  Lodge  was  closed,  and  a  Master 
Masons  Lodge  was  then  opened,  and  the  following 
Brethren  were  installed  according  to  antient  usage: 
Viz— John  Bartram  Master— Thos.  Rice  J.  W.  Ashe- 
ton  Humphreys  Treas.  and  Robt  Crozier  Sec'y. 

The  Secretary  paid  for  Refreshments  15/. 


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CHAPTER   XVII. 

Under  the  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania,   1787-1792. 

S  set  forth  in  the  previous  chapter  the 
Provincial  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsyl- 
vania declared  its  independence  from  any 
other  authority  whatever  on  September 
25,  1786.  Heretofore  little  or  nothing 
was  known  of  the  particulars  of  this  separation 
from  the  parent  body  from  which  Pennsylvania 
Masonry  derived  its  existence.  The  finding  of 
some  of  the  correspondence  by  Bro.  Sachse  in  the 
Archives  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  during  the 
summer  of  1908  was  the  first  intimation  to  the  Ma- 
sonic world  of  this  interesting  episode.  The  docu- 
ments in  London  were  photographed  and  copied. 
The  finding  during  the  present  winter  by  Bro.  John 
A.  Perry  in  the  Secretary's  vault  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania  of  a  bundle  of  old  papers  which 
proved  to  be  some  scraps  of  the  rough  minutes  and 
memoranda  dating  from  1765  to  1795,  enable  us, 
for  the  first  time,  to  tell  the  story  of  how  the  Grand 

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•mnDer  tbe  IRiobt  TOorebiptul  (BrauD  XoDge 

Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  advised  the  parent  body  of  its 
action. 

At  the  communication  held  September  28,  1786, 
Bros.  Edward  Fox,  J.  B.  Smith  and  Thomas  D.  Smith 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  draft  a  letter  to  be 
sent  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  taking  a  formal 
leave  of  them. 

At  the  adjourned  communication,  October  16,  1786, 
the  committee  laid  before  the  Grand  Lodge  the  fol- 
lowing farewell  letter  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Eng- 
land, which,  being  read,  was  unanimously  adopted, 
approved  and  signed  by  all  of  the  Grand  Officers. 

Brethren 

We  salute  you  in  all  Love  and  Respect.  We  acknowledge 
your  past  Goodness,  and  We  pray  your  kind  and  candid 
Acceptance  of  this  Address  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Penn- 
sylvania. 

It  having  pleased  the  Grand  Master  of  all  Events  in  human 
affairs,  to  dissolve  the  Political  Connection  which  subsisted 
between  your  Country  and  ours  when  We  were  honored  with 
your  Warrant,  and  to  change  the  Situation  of  this  Country 
into  that  of  a  Sovereignty  instead  of  a  Province,  it  has  seemed 
meet  to  the  Brethren  here  no  longer  to  consider  themselves 
as  a  Provincial  Lodge.  Knowing  also  that  those  who  are  not 
enlightened,  being  ignorant  of  our  Institution  are  ever  jealous 
of  improper  designs  and  practices,  the  Brethren  have  thought 
it  a  duty  they  owe  to  the  Government  that  protects  them,  to 
leave  no  Occasion  of  Offence  to  them  by  our  continuing  to 
acknowledge  a  foreign  Jurisdiction  the  Extent  of  which  they 
cannot  comprehend.      They  have  accordingly  at  a  Quarterly 

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Communieatiou  held  in  this  City  at  which  were  present  the 
officers  of  particular  Lodges  under  their  Jurisdiction  and 
Delegates  especially  appointed  and  authorized  for  this  pur- 
pose resolved  as  appears  by  the  enclosed  copy  of  their  pro- 
ceedings. We  hope  and  trust  that  this  procedure  will  meet 
your  approbation ;  and  that  we  shall  continue  to  receive  your 
salutary  councils  &  brotherly  advise  and  Communications 
upon  every  Occasion  which  may  occur  to  you  as  requiring 
it,  and  on  our  part  we  shall  look  np  to  you  as  venerable 
Masters  and  Instructors  in  the  Royal  Art  whenever  we  find 
ourselves  lacking  in  Knowledge. 

"We  shall  wish  never  to  forget  that  in  love  and  Harmony 
you  and  We  are  one,  and  shall  be  happy  in  every  Opportunity 
that  may  offer  of  shewing  by  an  Interchange  of  good  Offices 
that  your  Brethren  are  also  Ours  and  Ours  Yours  in  every 
good  Word  and  Work.  We  are  with  all  the  Mystical  Honors, 
in  the  Name  and  Behalf  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania 
in  Ample  Form  assembled 

Your  truly   affectionate   Brethren 
and  very  hble  Servants 
Philad^  October  16.  1786. 


The      Right      Worshipful 

Will  :  Adcock 

G.  M. 

Grand    Master    Officers    and 

J.  B.  Smith, 

D.  G.  M. 

Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge 

Jos  Dean, 

S.  G.  W. 

of  England. 

George  Ord 

J.  G.  W. 

Attest 

AsHTON  Humphreys,  Grand  Secretary 

This  letter  was  at  once  sent  to  England,  addressed 
to  the  E.  W.  Grand  Secretary,  Laurence  Dermott. 
It  was  dated  October  16,  1786,  together  with  a  per- 
sonal  and   explanatory   epistle.^ 

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'irinber  tbe  IRtgbt  TOorebtptul  (Brant)  Xobae 

This  communication  does  not  appear  to  have  been 
received  by  the  authorities  in  England,  as  no  acknowl- 
edgment of  it  reached  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Penn- 
sylvania. After  a  lapse  of  two  years  a  duplicate  of 
this  letter  was  sent  to  England  by  Bro.  Solomon 
Bush,  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  2.  This  was  dated 
November  10,  1788.  Brother  Bush,  upon  his  arrival 
in  London,  by  mistake  delivered  the  communication 
into  the  hands  of  the  Modern  Grand  Lodge.  It  is  this 
second  letter  from  Philadelphia  which  was  found  in 
London,  and  of  which  a  facsimile  is  now  on  exhibition 
in  the  Museum  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  Philadelphia, 
The  officials  of  this  Grand  Body  thinking  that  it  was 
a  missive  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Moderns  in  Phila- 
delphia over  which  "William  Allen  and  Benjamin 
Franklin  had  presided,  but  which  had  ceased  during 
the  revolutionary  period,  as  already  explained,  sent 
the  following  spicy  reply  to  our  Grand  Officers. 

(Letter  Book  No.  3,  Grand  Lodge  of  England, 
page  283) : 

^Lawrence  Dermott,  as  Gould  states  (ii.,  435),  "was  the  most 
remarkable  Mason  that  ever  existed."  Born  in  Ireland,  1720, 
initiated  into  Masonry  in  1740 — W.  M.  Lodge  No.  26,  Dublin,  1746 
— two  years  later  went  to  England;  affiliated  with  Modems,  1748; 
later  shifted  to  the  "  Ancients "  and  in  1752  was  elected  Grand 
Secretary,  which  oflSce  he  filled  until  1771,  when  he  was  appointed 
Deputy  Grand  Master,  serving  until  1777.  He  was  again  Deputy 
from  1783  until  1787.  Consequently  the  Communication  addi'essed 
to  him  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  as  Grand  Secretary 
did  not  reach  England  until  he  was  out  of  all  office. 

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William  Adcock  Esq.  J.  B.  Smith  Esq. 

Jos.  Dean  Esq,  George  Ord  Esq. 

Philadelphia 
Brethren 

I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  favor 
of  November  10 — 1788  rec'*  in  November  last  from  Col.  Bush 
advising  that  it  had  seemed  meet  to  the  Brethren  of  Pennsyl- 
vania no  longer  to  consider  themselves  as  a  Provincial  Grand 
Lodge,  and  had  therefore  established  themselves  into  a  Grand 
Lodge,  in  reply  I  am  directed  by  the  Grand  Master  and  Grand 
Officers  to  express  their  surprise  and  concern  at  such  a  step 
taken  without  any  previous  intimation, — their  concern  you 
must  be  convinced  does  not  arise  from  any  pecuniary  loss 
which  the  Grand  Lodge  can  sustain  by  the  separation  of 
the  Brethren  of  Pennsylvania,  but  from  the  injury  done  to 
the  society  at  large,  by  detached  parts  of  it  assuming  the 
rank  and  Jurisdiction  of  a  Grand  Lodge,  instead  of  uniting 
to  form  one  great  extensive  and  respectable  Body  concenter 'd 
under  one  common  Head  for  their  general  welfare,  and  which 
Head  can  surely  be  no  where  more  properly  placed  than  in 
the  Grand  Lodge  from  whence  they  all  derive  and  which  at 
no  period  was  ever  in  a  more  prosperous  and  honorable  situa- 
tion than  at  present  when  it  is  patronized  and  encouraged 
by  the  Most  Illustrious  characters  in  this  Country. 

The  ostensible  reason  given  for  your  separation  being  that 
the  political  connection  between  your  Country  and  ours  being 
disolved  cannot  of  itself  be  considered  as  sufficient  to  warrant 
your  proceedings. 

Masonry  being  an  universal  and  beautiful  System  of 
Philanthropy  unconnected  with  the  politicks  of  States  or 
modes  of  Religion  with  which  the  maxims  of  the  Craft  wisely 
forbids  us  to  meddle  lest  dissentions  might  ensue. — That  it 

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IllnOcr  tbe  IRigbt  Morsbtpful  (5ran&  %o^qc 

is  viewed  in  this  light  by  our  foreign  Brethren  is  evident 
from  many  Kingdoms  and  Sovereign  States  of  Europe,  con- 
tinuing to  hold  as  Provincial  Grand  Lodges  and  considering 
their  parent  as  their  centre  of  Union. 

I  am  directed  to  assure  you  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Eng- 
land ever  ready  to  promote  the  extension  and  universality 
of  the  order  will  continue  to  acknowledge  and  receive  in  its 
Lodge  the  Brethren  initiated  in  the  Lodges  of  America. 

With  fraternal  regard  and  Eespect  I  have  the  honor  to  be.^ 

The  surprise  of  the  Pennsylvania  brethren  may  well 
be  surmised  when  they  received  this  epistle  from  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Moderns  in  London,  owing  to  the 
blunder  of  Bro.  Bush  in  delivering  it  to  the  wi'ong 
body. 

This  reply  signed  by  Bro.  William  White,  Grand 
Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Moderns,  was  read 
at  the  Grand  Communication,  December  6,  1790, 
whereupon,  on  motion  and  seconded,  the  R.  W.  Grand 
Master,  Bros.  Dr.  Wm.  Smith,  McCree,  Vanden  Brock 
and  Few  were  appointed  a  committee  to  consider  the 
said  letter,  prepare  an  answer,  and  report  at  the  next 
communication. 

This  committee,  however,  did  not  make  any  report 
until  the  communication  held  June  6,  1791,  when  they 
presented  an  answer  which  was  read  and  approved, 
and  the  same  committee  were  requested  to  procure 
a  fair  copy  of  it,  that  it  may  be  signed  by  the  Grand 
Secretary  and  forwarded,  which  was  done.      FoUow- 

'  The  signature  to  above  letter  is  missing  in  the  original. 

137 


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ing  is  a  verbatim  copy  of  this  interesting  document, 
found  in  the  library  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England. 

(Letter  Book  No.  3,  Grand  Lodge  of  England, 
pages  284-285-286) : 

Philadelphia  November  18.  1791 
Brother 

Your  favor  of  the  2V^  March  1790  directed  to  William 
Adcock— J.  B.  Smith,— Joseph  Dean  and  George  Ord  Esqrs. 
has  been  duly  received  by  the  hands  of  Brother  Bush. — And 
in  reply  I  am  directed  to  inform  you,  that  the  communication 
from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  with  which  he  was 
charged,  was  intended  for  the  Grand  Lodge  over  which  the 
Marquis  of  Antrim  now  presides,  but  by  mistake  it  has  been 
delivered  to  yours. 

This  mistake  has  very  naturally,  led  you  to  suppose  that 
the  communication  came  from  the  successors  of  those  Brethren 
who  formerly  obtained  a  Provincial  Warrant  from  your 
Grand  Lodge ;  But  this  is  also  a  mistake  for  that  warrant  has 
long  ceased  to  Operate  in  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Body  that 
obtained  it  has  been  many  years  entirely  extinct. — 

The  present  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  was  originally 
organized  under  the  ancient  Grand  Lodge,  by  virtue  of  a 
warrant  granted  to  them,  in  the  year  5764  [sic]  When  the 
Right  Honorable  Thomas  Earl  Kellj^  was  Grand  Master. 
Consequently  it  was  to  that  Grand  Lodge  that  they  intended 
to  account  for  their  conduct,  and  to  them  only  could  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  with  Propriety,  address  their 
reasons  for  assuming  an  Independent  Jurisdiction 

The  Grand  Lodge  however  with  pleasure  avail  themselves 
of  this  occasion,  to  express  their  attachment  to  the  Royal 
Craft,  under  whatever  authority  it  may  be  conducted  and 
to  assure  you,  that  they  regard  your  Grand  Lodge  with  senti- 

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ments  of  the  highest  respect  and  veneration — But  Masonry, 
as  you  justly  observe,  being  a  universal  and  Beautiful  system 
of  Philanthropy,  unconnected  with  modes  of  Religion,  or 
plans  of  Poleticks;  it  does  not  therefore  require  any  concen- 
tration of  Authority  to  render  it  flourishing  and  respectable : 
On  the  contrary,  perhaps  the  extention  of  the  craft  would  be 
best  promoted  by  the  diffusion  of  Jurisdiction,  since  it  is 
certain  that  the  energy  and  vigor  which  proceed  from  the  seat 
of  power,  decline  in  proportion  to  the  distance  at  which  it 
operates. 

The  erecting  of  new  Grand  Lodges  therefore,  cannot  be 
considered  as  injurious  to  the  Fraternity  so  long  as  they 
exercise  exclusive  authority,  over  a  district,  whose  limits  is 
ascertained. — It  is  only  when  their  jurisdiction  clashes  and 
interferes,  that  disorder  and  confusion  arise,  of  which  dis- 
grace and  disunion  are  the  inevitable  consequences. — But 
while  their  jurisdiction  and  authority  continue  distinct  and 
seperate,  they  move  in  the  most  perfect  harmony  and  order, 
like  the  Orbs  of  Heaven  revolving  round  the  Sun,  each,  in 
its  own  sphere  reciprocally  vivified  and  Enlightened,  and  all, 
bound  in  one  splendid  system,  by  the  powerfully  attractive 
influence  of  that  Divine  principle  of  Friendship,  affection 
and  Knowledge,  which  is  their  common  centre  and  which  is 
the  Glory  and  the  boast  of  our  ancient  Institution. 

Full  of  this  energetic  principle,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Penn- 
sylvania, although  they  have  rejected  all  foreign  authority, 
yet  still  continue  to  regard  the  Brethren  in  England  with 
unabated  warmth  of  affection ;  and  as  they  have  nothing  so 
much  at  heart  as  a  more  intimate  Masonic  Union  of  all  the 
parts  of  our  widely  extended  Order,  they  will  therefore  be 
happy  to  keep  up  that  fraternal  communication  with  your 
Grand  Lodge  to  which  an  accident  has  given  a  beginning 

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and  whicli  in  their  opinion,  is  absolutely  necessary  to  the 
general  welfare. 

With  fraternal  regard  and  respect  I  have  the  Honor  to  be 

Brother 
Your  most  obed*^  Humble  Servant 

P.  Le  Bakbier  Duplessis  D,  G.  S^ 
William  White,  Esq. 

It  will  be  noted  that  up  to  this  time,  November, 
1791,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancients  had  received  no 
oflBcial  notification  of  the  secession  of  the  Provincial 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  held  forth  under  their 
warrant  granted  July  15,  1761. 

To  properly  notify  the  parent  body  the  following 
motion  was  made  at  the  adjourned  communication 
held  October  14,  1791: 

"On  Motion  and  seconded,  Resolved,  that  the  R*  W  G^ 
officers  be  requested  to  forvvard  by  Bro.  Eleazer  Oswald^  such 

^  Eleazer  Oswald,  bom  in  England  about  1755,  died  in  New  York, 
September  30,  1795.  Wbon  disputes  arose  between  Great  Britain 
and  the  American  colonies  his  sjonpathies  became  enlisted  in  the 
American  cause,  and  he  came  to  this  country  about  1770.  He 
served  under  Benedict  Arnold  at  Ticonderoga,  and  became  his 
secretary.  At  Quebec  he  commanded  a  forlorn  hope  after  Arnold 
was  wounded.  He  was  made  lieutenant-colonel  of  Col.  John  Lamb's 
regiment  of  artillery  on  January  1,  1777,  had  a  high  reputation  for 
skill  as  an  artillerist,  distinguished  himself  under  Arnold  at  Compo, 
and  was  praised  for  his  gallantry  in  the  official  reports  of  the  battle 
of  Momnouth.  Leaving  the  service  in  1778,  he  removed  to  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  and  in  April,  1782,  began  the  publication  of  the 
"  Independent  Gazetteer,  or  the  Chronicle  of  Freedom,"  which  he 
made  the  vehicle  of  violent  partisan  attacks.  He  reopened  William 
Bradford's  Coffee-House  in  1783,  and  while  conducting  it  published 
the  monthly  "  Price  Current,"  the  earliest  commercial  paper  in  the 

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IDln^er  tbe  HUxqU  XlXIlorsbtpful  6ran^  XoDge 

communication  as  they  may  think  proper  to  the  R*  W*  G** 
Lodge  of  Ancient  Masons  of  England." 

Among  the  remains  of  the  rough  minutes  found  in 
our  Grand  Secretary's  office  a  draft  of  this  communi- 
cation was  found,  together  with  a  list  of  what  was 
sent  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  by  the  hands 
of  Bro.  Oswald: 

The  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  avail  themselves 
of  an  opportunity  furnished  them  by  Brother  Eleazer  Oswald 
who  imbarks  for  London  to  pay  their  respects  to  the  R.  W. 
Grand  Lodge  of  England. 

We  continue  to  feel  that  attachment  and  affection  to  y® 
Grand  Lodge  which  is  due  to  those  from  whom  derived  our 
Existence  and  shall  be  impressed  with  happiness  in  every 
instance  of  y""  attention :  Inclosed  is  a  copy  of  the  proceedings 


United  States.  In  August,  1786,  he  offered  to  lead  a  volunteer 
company  of  infantry,  of  which  he  was  captain,  to  the  northern 
frontier  in  order  to  capture  from  the  British  the  posts  that  they 
occupied  in  violation  of  the  articles  of  peace.  Trom  1782  till  1787 
he  published  in  New  York  city  the  "  Independent  Gazette,  or  New 
York  Journal  Revived,"  which  had  formerly  been  conducted  by 
John  Holt,  a  kinsman  of  his  wife.  He  was  a  strong  opponent  of 
the  political  principles  of  Alexander  Hamilton,  and  challenged  the 
latter  to  a  duel,  but  their  friends  adjusted  the  matter.  In  1792  he 
went  to  England,  and  shortly  afterward  to  France,  where  he  joined 
the  Republican  army,  was  commissioned  as  a  colonel  of  artillery, 
and  commanded  a  regiment  under  Gen.  Charles  F.  Dumouriez,  at 
Jemmapes.  The  government  sent  him  on  a  secret  mission  to  Ire- 
land to  report  on  the  political  condition  of  that  country  and  the 
feasibility  of  the  projected  French  invasion.  He  reached  Ireland 
by  a  journey  through  Norway  and  Scotland,  reported  to  the  Min- 
ister of  Foreign  Affairs  in  France,  and,  not  receiving  further  in- 
structions, returned  to  the  United  States,  where  he  died  of  yellow 
fever  shortly  after  his  arrival. 

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of  the  late  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  then 
held  by  virtue  of  your  warrant.  The  measure  we  trust  will 
meet  y''  approbation  because  of  s^  peculiar  situation  of  this 
Countrj^  in  general  and  of  the  dangers  which  would  have 
arisen  to  the  Craft  had  not  this  been  done,  particularly  from 
Circumstances  of  our  being  open  to  the  influx  of  masons  of 
every  description  and  variant  forms  of  working,  from  every 
foreign  jurisdiction.  Immediately  after  the  above  acts  on  our 
part  we  transmitted  to  y^  G.  S.  Bro  Lau :  Dermott  a  copy  of 
our  transactions,  with  a  particular  detail  of  y^  reasons,  and 
of  the  state  of  the  Craft.  Receiving  no  answer  to  this  we 
forwarded  a  duplicate  by  a  Brother  Bush  who  unfortunately 
by  mistake  delivered  our  dispatches  to  the  Modern  Grand 
Lodge  of  England. 

We  trust  we  shall  now  succeed  in  this  third  attempt  as 
Brother  Oswald  seems  himself  interested  in  paying  his  own 
and  our  respects  to  the  antient  craft.  He  bears  our  certifi- 
cate, and  is  personally  respected  by  said  Brethren 

Any  Communications  by  him  will  be  gratefully  received, 
and  we  shall  be  happy  in  every  intercourse  of  fraternal 
friendship  and  information 

1  Copy  of  Transactions,  Sep'  25,  1786  N°  1  and  2  from 
Lodge  Book. 

Copy  of  letter  of  October  1786  No.  3 

Book  of  Constitutions  Xo.  4 

New  Regulations  No.  5 

Letter  to  Gr  Lodge  Nov.  18  1791  No.  6 

[seal] 

Names  of  Grand  officers 

To  Brother  Oswald  may  be  committed  in  fullest  Confidence 
an\i:hing  on  your  part  respecting  the  Craft  under  y""  Juris- 
diction or  elsewhere,  its  present  state  and  regulations  on  such 

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IDlnber  tbe  IRigbt  Morebtpful  (BranD  %o^qc 

instructions  and  advice  as  you  may  deem  for  the  good  of 
Masonry  in  this  New  World  and  preserving  its  benign 
reciprocal  intercourse  with  the  old.  For  y^  further  satis- 
faction we  forward  our  book  of  Constitutions  and  our  later 
byelaws  of  which  we  hope  you  will  approve  but  shall  also 
be  happy  to  receive  any  observations. 

How  well  Bro.  Oswald  performed  his  mission  is 
shown  by  the  reply  sent  by  the  English  Masonic 
authorities  to  our  Grand  Lodge. 

It  is  further  a  noteworthy  fact  that  the  error  made 
by  Bro.  Bush  in  delivering  his  message  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Moderns  in  1788  was  the  means  of  bringing 
about  fraternal  relations  between  that  body  and  our 
own  Grand  Lodge,  and  it  is  believed  that  this  is  the 
only  case  on  record  where  a  foreign  Grand  Body  was 
in  fraternal  communication  with  both  of  the  English 
Grand  Lodges.  As  a  matter  of  fact  it  was  the  pre- 
cursor of  the  final  union  of  the  two  English  Grand 
Lodges  which  came  to  a  happy  consummation  some 
twenty  years  later. 

Following  is  the  communication  from  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  England  (Ancients).  This  was  read  before 
the  Grand  Lodge  in  Philadelphia,  December  3,  1792: 

Quarterly  Communication. 

December  3d,  1792. 
Present,  the  R*  W^  J.  B.  Smith,  Grand  Master. 
The  R*  W  Grand  Master  presented  communications  from 
the  R*^  W^  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  according  to  the  old 
institutions,  which  were  read  as  followeth  (to  wit)  : 

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To  THE  Right  "Worshipful,  the  Grand  Lodge  op  the  Most 
Ajstcient  and  Honorable  Fraternity  op  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons  op  Pennsylvania. 

Right  Worshipful  Brothers:  It  is  with  much  satisfaction 
that  in  conformity  to  the  resolution  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
England,  herewith  transmitted,  and  in  their  name,  we  address 
you  on  this  occasion. 

We  rejoice  on  the  restoration  of  a  fraternal  intercourse  and 
communication  between  our  respective  Grand  Lodges,  which 
we  cannot  but  lament  had  ever  been  suspended,  and  which 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  agree  forever  to  cultivate  and 
support. 

The  accession  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  to  a 
fraternal  alliance  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  and 
consequently  with  the  several  Grand  Lodges  in  the  different 
quarters  of  the  globe  in  alliance  with  that  of  England,  so 
conducive  to  the  honor  and  interest  of  our  ancient  craft, 
must  necessarily  be  highly  satisfactory  to  the  Masonic  world 
at  large. 

Having  perused  your  Book  of  Constitutions,  we  reflect  with 
pleasure  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  has  given  birth 
to  a  Grand  Lodge  in  the  Western  world,  whose  strict  adher- 
ence to  the  ancient  and  immutable  landmarks  of  our  order 
reflects  honor  on  its  original  founders.  Here  we  must  beg 
leave  to  state  that  we  conceive  that  in  constituting  your 
Grand  Lodge  we  necessarily  communicated  to  it  the  same 
independent  sovereign  Masonic  authority  within  your  juris- 
diction which  we  ourselves  possessed  within  ours,  amenable  to 
no  superior  jurisdiction  under  Heaven,  and  subject  only  to 
the  immutable  landmarks  of  the  craft.  All  Grand  Lodges 
in  Masonry  being  necessarily  Free,  Independent,  and  Equi- 
pollent  within   their   respective   jurisdictions,    which    conse- 

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Tanker  the  IRiabt  TOorebtpful  (Brant)  %o^qc 

quently  excludes  the  idea  of  subjection  to  a  foreign  authority 
or  the  establishment  of  an  Imperium  in  Imperio. 

It  having,  however,  pleased  the  Almighty  Architect  of  the 
Universe  to  erect  the  Province  Pennsylvania  into  a  sovereign 
State,  we  coincide  with  you  in  opinion,  that  it  became  ex- 
pedient to  remove  those  doubts  which  either  had  or  might 
be  entertained  by  the  uninformed  upon  that  point,  by  de- 
claring in  the  most  explicit  manner  the  independence  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  the  full  and  ample  authority 
of  which,  limited  only  be  the  unchangeable  landmarks  of 
the  system,  as  it  cannot  be  increased,  so  neither  can  it  ever 
be  diminished  by  political  changes  or  revolutions. 

The  Principles  of  pure  Masonry  like  those  of  true  morality 
must  in  every  age  and  nation  remain  the  same,  unmoved  by 
the  shock  of  Empires  or  the  vicissitudes  of  human  events. 

We  transmit  to  you,  herewith,  our  circular  letter  to  the 
Lodges  under  our  jurisdiction,  for  the  current  year,  con- 
taining a  list  of  our  Grand  Officers,  and  those  of  the  Grand 
Lodges  in  alliance  with  us  according  to  their  last  communi- 
cations for  the  present  year,  to  which  we  have  to  add  that  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Lower  Canada. 

It  is  with  pleasure  we  inform  you  of  the  increasing  pros- 
perity of  Free  Masonry,  not  only  under  our  jurisdiction,  but 
under  that  of  the  diiferent  Grand  Lodges  in  the  different 
quarters  of  the  globe  united  with  us. 

We  are  with  esteem  and  best  wishes  for  your 
Grand  Lodge,  and  the  Craft  under  its  Juris- 

[SEAL.]  diction.  Right  Worshipful  Brothers, 

Your  sincere  friends  and  Brothers, 

James  Agar, 

Dep'y  Grand  Master. 
RoBT.  Leslie, 

Grand  Secretary, 

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Grand  Lodge  of  the  most  Ancient  and  Honorable  Fra- 
ternity of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  England  according 
to  the  Old  Institutions. 

His  Grace,  the  Duke  of  Athol,  Grand  IMaster. 
Crown  and  Anchor  Tavern,  London,  5th  September,  1792. 

Present :  Ja^  Agar,  Deputy  Grand  Master. 

Sir  Watkin  Lewis  Knight,  Senior  Grand  Warden, 

Jn°  Bunn,  Esq.,  Junior  Grand  Warden. 

Tho^  Harper,  Esq.,  Past  Senior  Grand  Warden. 

Robert  Leslie,  Esq.  Grand  Secretary. 

John  Feakins,  Esq.,  Grand  Treasurer. 

William  Hockaday,  Esq.,  Grand  Sword  Bearer. 
The  Masters,  Wardens,  and  Past  Masters  of  the  Eight  Wor- 
shipful, the  Grand  Master's  Lodge,  No.  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  9,  10, 
13,  23,  37,  63,  31,  81,  128,  159,  192,  193,  194,  195,  221,  225, 
226,  227,  230,  231,  234,  239,  240,  241,  244,  245,  251,  253,  255, 
258,  259,  261,  264. 

Dispatches  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  bearing 
date  the  18tli  of  November  last,  and  of  25th  of  October,  1782, 
and  two  resolutions  of  that  Grand  Lodge  of  the  25th  Septem- 
ber, 1786,  were  communicated  by  the  Right  Worshipful 
Deputy  Grand  Master,  which  were  read  and  ordered  to  be 
entered  on  the  minutes.  .  His  Worship  also  informed  the 
Grand  Lodge  that  a  book  of  the  Constitutions  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  had  been  sent  with  the  dispatches, 
which  he  had  perused  and  found  perfectly  conformable  to 
the  Landmarks  of  the  Ancient  Craft,  and  after  congratulating 
the  Grand  Lodge  on  the  restoration  of  the  fraternal  inter- 
course between  this  Grand  Lodge  and  that  of  Pennsylvania, 
he  proposed  and  it  was  Resolved,  unanimously.  That  a 
brotherly  address  be  transmitted  to  the  Right  Worshipful  the 

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'mn^er  tbe  IRtobt  Morsbipful  6rant)  %o^qc 

Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  acknowledging  their  friendly 
communications  and  approving  thereof,  and  that  a  fraternal 
intercourse  and  correspondence  be  established  between  this 
Grand  Lodge  and  that  of  Pennsylvania  forever,  in  the  same 
manner  as  between  this  Grand  Lodge  and  the  Grand  Lodges 
of  Scotland,  Ireland,  and  the  other  Grand  Lodges  throughout 
the  Masonic  World.  Robert  Leslie, 

Grand  Secretary. 

Whereupon,  on  motion  and  seconded,  the  same  were  ordered 
to  be  inserted  on  the  minutes,  and  referred  to  Bros.  McCree, 
Bankson,  Kidd,  Johnston,  and  Mason,  to  report  thereon  at  the 
next  Quarterly  Communication,  and  Brother  Grand  Secretary 
was  directed  to  send  copies  of  the  said  communication  to  the 
respective  Grand  Lodges  in  the  United  States,  and  others  in 
alliance  with  this  Grand  Lodge, 

January  8,  i7<S7.  — Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro 
Bartram  W.  M.  Seven  Members— four  Visitors— Bros 
Hunt-C.  Smith-Elkin-Ewart. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form.— Bro  Rice, 
appointed  in  place  of  Bro.  Dean  on  the  Committe  to 
confer  with  the  Sublime  Lodge  as  to  the  terms  on 
which  we  are  to  have  their  Room.— 

Bro.  Wadman  informed  the  Lodge  that  Bros  Evans 
and  Milnor  had  settled  their  accounts  in  dispute  them- 
selves. 

The  Standing  Committe  are  requested  to  wait  on 
Bro  Wescott,  late  Treasurer  to  examine  and  settle  his 
accounts  Bro  Wadman  is  appointed  steward  for  the 
ensuing  Six  Months— Recived  the  benefit  on  an  E.  A. 
Lecture  from  Bro.  Doct.  Thos.  Smith  in  the  Chair. 

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February  12,  i7S7.— Stated  Lodge  Present— John 
Bartram  Master— Praise  Wadman  S.  W.— John  Salis- 
berry  J.  W.— Asheton  Humphreys— Abr am  Bickley, 
and  Bro  Benjamin  Mason  of  N°  19  a  Visitor 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  form,— Bro 
Wadman,  one  of  the  Committe  appointed  to  confer 
with  the  Committe  from  the  Sublime  Lodge  respecting 
the  rent  of  this  Room  informed  the  Lodge  that  Noth- 
ing had  as  yet  been  done  and  prayed  till  the  next 
Stated  Night  to  make  report  which  was  granted.  The 
Committe  appointed  to  settle  the  late  Treasurers  Ac- 
counts, also  requested  further  time. 

The  Grand  Secretary  Bro  Humphreys  then  offered 
to  this  Lodge  a  New  Warrant  from  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania,  upon  this  Lodge  surrendering  up 
their  old  Warrant  as  Mentioned  in  the  Minute  of  11*^ 
December  last,  and  the  same  being  read  was  accepted 
by  the  Lodge  and  the  old  Warrant  delivered  into  the 
hands  of  the  Grand  Secretary.  Lodge  Closed  in  Har- 
mony at  9  O'clock. 

March  12,  i7<97.— Stated  Lodge— Present— Bro  Jno. 
Bartram  W.  M.— Praise  Wadman  S.  W.— J.  Eice  J. 
W.-Moore  S.  D.-Bickley  J.  D. -Rutherford -Hum- 
phreys—Wescott—Crozier— Visitors— Bros.  Hamilton 
—Thompson— Mason. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form. 

Bros  Wadman  and  Rice  the  Committe  to  Confer 
with  the  Committe  from  the  Sublime  Lodge  made 
report  that  £  25—0—0  p.  Annum  was  the  Rent  de- 

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innt)er  the  IRigbt  Mor0biptul  6ran^  Xo^ge 

manded  by  the  Committe  from  the  Sublime  Lodge,  it 
was  the  opinion  of  this  Lodge  that  £  15.  p.  year  was 
a  sufficient  rent  and  as  much  as  this  Lodge  could 
afford.— Lodge  Closed.  A  M.  M.  Lodge  opened.  When 
Bro  Abram  Bichley  was  raised  to  the  degree  of  a 
M.  M. 

On  Motion  and  Seconded,  ordered  that  the  secretary 
advertise  in  the  "Pennsylvania  Packet  and  Indepen- 
dent Gazateer"  the  Meeting  of  this  Lodge  on  their 
next  Stated  Night— requesting  the  attendance  of  every 
Member  as  Matters  of  consequence  to  this  Lodge  are 
to  be  Considered    Paid  Bill  for  Refreshments  30/4.— 

April  9,  i7(S7.— Stated  Lodge     Present 

Bro  A.  Humphreys         Masf         Bro  Mason  No  19  S.  D.  pt 
"    P.  Wadman  S.  W.  p  t   "    Wescott  J  D  pt. 

"    P.  Duplessis,  No  19  J.  W  pt 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  being  opened  in  due  Form,  and  so 
few  members  attending  it  was  thought  proper  to 
adjourn  to  Wednesday  evening  next  to  which  time 
Secretary  is  ordered  to  issue  summons  to  the  Mem- 
bers of  this  Lodge— requesting  their  punctual  at- 
tendance. 

Lodge  closed  in  Harmony. 

April  11,  1787.- Members  present 


Bro  J.  Pennington 

W.  M  pt 

Visitors 

"     Thos  Rice 

S.  W.  pt 

Bro  M.  Cohen 

No  19 

"     P.  Wadman 

J  W  pt 

"    B.  Mason 

No  19 

"     M.  Cohen 

S.  D  pt 

"     J.  B.  Smith 

No     3 

"    B.  Mason 

J  D  pt 

"     J  Thomson 

No  19 

"     A  Humphreys 

Secy  pt 

149 

"    P.    Duplessis 

No  19. 

1730— ifreemasonr^  in  ipenns^lvanta  — 1907 

A7i  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form— Bro  Hum- 
phreys one  of  the  Committe  to  examine  the  aects.  of 
Bro  Wescott  late  Treasurer  of  this  Lodge,  reported 
that  he  has  examined  the  accounts  and  Compared 
them  with  the  minutes  of  this  Lodge  with  which 
they  agreed,  and  found  there  was  in  the  hands  of  Bro 
Wescott  £  19—2—1  Balance  which  he  was  ready  to 
pay  into  the  hands  of  the  present  Treasurer,  upon  the 
Masters  order— So  Ordered. 

On  Motion  and  Seconded— Ordered  that  the  Officers 
of  this  Lodge  be  directed  to  take  the  opinion  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  at  their  next  meeting  upon  the  following 
Question:  — 

'^  Whether  it  is  expedient  for  any  particular  Lodge 
under  their  Jurisdiction  to  pass  a  law  granting 
liberty  to  any  member  belonging  to  such  particular 
Lodge  to  withdraw  himself  from  the  Lodge  after  a 
Continuance  of  three  years  and  paying  up  his  Lodge 
dues. ' ' 

Paid  for  Refreshment  29/9. 

June  11,  i7<S7.— Stated  Lodge— Present  Bro  A. 
Humphreys  W.  M  pt— Joseph  Dean  S  W— Praise 
Wadman  J.  W.— John  Salisbury  S.  D.— Alex  Ruther- 
ford—Donovan—Visitors Bros  Hamilton  No  3— 
Chrystie  No  3. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  Form— Lodge  closed 
and  a  F.  C.  Lodge  opened,  when  Bro  Donovon  was 
passed  to  the  degree  of  a  F.  C. 

This  being  the  Stated  Night  before  St  John's  Day 

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—appointed  for  the  election  of  Officers,  few  members 
being  present  it  was  thought  proper  to  adjourn  the 
Lodge  until  next  Friday  Evening  at  7  0 'Clock. 
Lodge  Closed  in  Harmony  at  10  0 'Clock— 
June  16,  i7(S7.— Extra  Lodge— Present— 
Bro  A.  Humphreys  Master  pt       Visitor 


"     J.  Dean 

S.  W 

Bro.  Henry  Cooper 

"     P.  Wadrnan 

J  W 

"     G.  Weseott 

S.  D 

"    A  Biekley 

J  D 

"     A  Rutherford 

P.  M. 

"     Donovan 

A  F.  C.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form— This  being  a 
Lodge  Called  for  the  purpose  of  Choosing  officers  for 
the  ensuing  six  Months,  we  proceeded  to  the  Election, 
and  were  chosen  and  duly  elected  as  follows: — viz — 
Bro  Joseph  Dean  W.  M. 

"     Praise  Wadman        S.  W. 
''     Robert  Crozier         J  W 
"     Abram  Biekley         Sec'y 
"     Asheton  Humphrey.  Treas. 
Bro.  Humphreys,  informed  the  Lodge  that  he  had 
paid  the  Sublime  Lodge  £  7—10—0  being  six  months 
rent   of   this   Eoom— Lodge    Closed,    and   a   Masters 
Lodge  opened,  when  Bro  Florence  Donovan  was  raised 
to  the  Sublime  Degree  of  a  Master  Mason. 

Lodge  Closed  in  Harmony  at  ^  past  10  0 'Clock 
P.M. 

The  third  minute  book  of  Lodge  No.  2  closes  with 
the  election  of  officers  for  the  ensuing  six  months 
from  St.  John's  Day,  June  24,  1787. 

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The  next  minute  book  begins  under  date  of  July  2, 
1789.  In  the  preamble  of  this  book  it  states  that  the 
old  Lodge  had  become  extinct  without  however  giving 
any  dates  or  facts.  It  will  be  noted  that  the  last 
entry  of  1787  gives  the  installation  of  the  officers  for 
the  coming  Masonic  year.  That  there  was  some 
trouble  in  the  Lodge  at  that  time,  is  gleaned  from 
following  resolutions  in  Grand  Lodge,  December  17, 
1787: 

Ordered — that  the  Grand  Sec'y  summon  the  members  of 
No.  2,  who  have  declined  their  meetings  for  some  time  past, 
to  convene  themselves  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the 
present  State  and  situation  of  the  same. 

At  the  subsequent  quarterly  communications  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  we  find  the  following  entries: 

March  31,  :Z7S8.— The  Grand  Sec'y  informed  the  Lodge, 
that  agreeable  to  orders  given  him,  at  last  quarterly  Com- 
munication, he  had  convened  the  members  of  No.  2,  of  which 
he  himself  was  a  member. 

That  in  consequence  thereof,  at  a  meeting  of  said  Lodge, 
a  committe  were  appointed  to  collect  the  Sentiments  of  the 
several  members  of  that  Lodge,  but  that  the  said  Lodge  had 
never  since  met.  Whereupon,  on  Motion  and  Seconded, — 
Resolved, — That  the  Grand  Sec'y  he  directed  to  convene  the 
members  of  No.  2,  again,  and  in  case  of  a  failure  to  demand 
their  warrant,  &c.  In  order  that  it  may  be  returned  to  the 
Grand  Lodge. 

June  16,  1788. — Order  respecting  Lodge  No.  2,  continued. 

December  15,  1788. — The  Business  Respecting  No.  2,  con- 
tinued. 

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Until  the  quarterly  communication  held  March  30, 
1789,  Lodge  No.  2  was  regularly  represented  in  Grand 
Lodge,  and  must  have  been  working  under  their 
warrant  up  to  that  time. 

That  there  had  been  more  or  less  friction  among 
the  brethren  of  Lodge  No.  2  for  the  past  eighteen 
months  is  shown  by  above  quotations. 

Just  what  was  the  cause  of  this  trouble  has  thus 
far  been  a  sealed  book.  According  to  an  old  tradition 
the  trouble  was  a  political  one  in  which  the  election 
of  Washington  to  the  presidency  is  mentioned  as  the 
chief  factor.  But  there  is  nothing  of  record  to  sus- 
tain this.  It  must,  however  have  been  of  a  different 
origin,  as  it  had  its  beginning  long  before  the  presi- 
dential election  in  1789.  Further,  if  the  cause  was 
of  a  political  nature  it  was  probably  caused  by  the 
excitement  incident  to  the  adoption  of  the  federal 
constitution.  The  finding  of  a  bundle  of  old  papers 
in  the  archives  of  our  Grand  Lodge,  marked  ' '  Proctor^ 

*  Thomas  Proctor,  born  in  Ireland  in  1739 ;  died  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  March  16,  1806.  On  October  27,  1775,  he  applied  to  the 
committee  of  safety  to  be  commissioned  captain  of  an  artillery  com- 
pany to  be  raised  for  garrisoning  Fort  Island,  and  was  immediately 
commissioned  with  authority  to  raise  his  company.  In  August, 
1776,  his  command  was  raised  to  a  battalion,  of  which  he  was  ap- 
pointed major.  On  February  7,  1777,  he  was  commissioned  colonel, 
with  instructions  to  raise  an  entire  regiment  of  artillery.  In 
September,  1778,  his  regiment  became  a  part  of  the  Continental 
army,  and  he  received  his  commission  of  colonel  of  artillery,  May 
18,  1779.  He  was  in  Wayne's  Bergen  Neck  expedition,  and  was 
satirized  by  Andre  in  the  "  Cow  Chase  " — 

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vs.  Young"  evidently  goes  far  to  solve  the  conundrum. 
These  two  brethren  were  among  the  leading  spirits 
of  Lodge  No.  2,  as  well  as  close  friends  and  partners 
in  some  financial  ventures,  and  in  1786  both  brethren 
were  prominent  in  the  withdrawal  from  Lodge  No.  2 
and  the  revival  of  Lodge  No.  19.  It  appears,  how- 
ever, that  both  men  still  kept  an  interest  in  the  old 
Lodge,  and  when  eventually  a  disagreement  arose 
between  the  two  about  a  financial  venture,  their 
friends  in  the  old  Lodge  took  sides  as  the  strife  in- 
creased, and  the  matter  came  before  the  Grand  Lodge. 
The  finding  of  the  trial  committee  was  as  follows: 

The  Committee  appointed  to  inquire  into  the  Facts  set 
forth  in  the  Petition  of  several  Brethren  to  the  Grand  Master 
in  Behalf  of  Brother  Charles  Young,^  which  was  read  in 
Grand  Lodge  at  the  Communication  in  December  1788. 

"  Sons  of  distant  Delaware, 
And  still  remoter  Shannon, 
And  Major  Lee  with  horses  rare, 
And  Proctor  with  his  cannon." 

He  resigned  in  1781  on  account  of  differences  with  Joseph  Reed, 
president  of  the  Pennsylvania  council,  and  in  1783  was  chosen 
high  sheriff  of  Philadelphia,  which  office  he  held  three  years.  In 
1790  he  was  made  city  lieutenant;  in  1791  a  commissioner  to  treat 
with  the  Miami  Indians.  In  1793  he  became  brigadier-general  of 
the  Pennsjdvania  troops,  and  marched  against  the  whiskey  insur- 
gents at  the  head  of  the  first  brigade.  After  this  he  became  major- 
general  of  the  Philadelphia  militia.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  St.  Tammany  Society  in  Philadelphia,  of  which  he  was  a 
sachem.  A  jjart  of  Col.  Proctor's  regiment  of  artillery  has  main- 
tained its  organization  to  the  present  time  as  the  Second  United 
States  Artillery. 

°  Charles  Young  was  a  prominent  merchant  in  Philadelphia. 

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Beg  leave  to  Report 

That  in  Consequence  of  their  Appointment  they  summoned 
the  said  Brother  Charles  Young  and  also  Bro  Thomas  Proctor, 
the  Brother  principally  alluded  to  in  the  said  Petition,  to 
appear  before  them — That  the  said  Brethren,  in  Obedience  to 
such  Summons  having  appeared,  Brother  Young  charged 
Brother  Procter  with  having  at  divers  Times  and  places,  made 
certain  allegations  to  the  great  Injury  of  his  Character  and 
Reputation,  and  the  Consequent  Detriment  and  Prejudice  of 
himself  and  Family — That  the  said  Brother  Procter  being 
called  upon,  by  your  Committee  to  reply  to  this  Charge,  ex- 
hibited on  his  part  certain  Charges  against  Brother  Young, 
imputing  to  him  a  Conduct  altogether  unworthy  an  honest 
Man  or  a  Member  of  our  Fraternity — That  your  Committee 
before  they  entered  into  an  Investigation  of  those  reciprocal 
Charges,  obliged  the  Parties  to  declare  in  the  most  solemn 
Form  used  among  the  Masons,  that  each  of  them  would 
strictly  abide  by  whatever  this  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge 
should  on  the  Report  of  your  Committe  make  in  the  Premises 
— That  the  Committee  then  proceeded  to  hear  the  Parties 
Examine  their  Witnesses,  and  compare  their  Vouchers  and 
after  spending  a  considerable  Time,  in  a  patient  Hearing  of 
the  Charges  and  Defense  of  each  Party,  a  strict  examination 
of  the  Testimony  adduced,  and  a  careful  Attention  to  their 
several  and  respective  Vouchers,  it  appeared  to  your  Com- 
mittee, that  a  great  deal  of  Matter  had  been  laid  before  them 
which  did  not  immediately  relate  to  the  difference  subsisting 
between  Brothers  Procter  and  Young,  and  which  therefore 
was  not  within  the  Designs  of  their  Appointment.  This  ex- 
traneous Matter  they  have  for  these  Reasons  deemed  an 
improper  Subject  for  their  Deliberation,  and  Consequently 
have  confined  their  Enquiries  to  the  Conduct  of  the  said 

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Brethren  in  those  particulars  only  which  immediately  Respect 
each  other — That  the  Dispute  between  those  Brethren,  also 
involved  matter  of  Account,  each  of  the  Parties  supposing 
a  balance  due  to  him  from  the  other;  and  altho'  in  ordinary 
Cases,  the  Committee  would  have  endeavored  to  ascertain 
where  the  Balance  ought  to  be;  yet  Considering  Brother 
Youngs  particular  Situation  they  have  deemed  it  most  prudent 
not  to  enter  into  a  strict  Examination  of  this  part  of  the 
Business,  as  the  Determination  of  the  Committee  or  of  this 
Lodge  if  even  subscribed  by  the  Parties,  would  have  no  In- 
fluence upon  Brother  Young's  Assignees,  who  can  be  gov- 
erned in  this  particular  only  by  a  Decision  in  the  Manner 
prescribed  by  law — And  as  any  Opinion  which  your  Com- 
mittee should  give,  might  be  injurious  to  one  of  the  Parties 
without  benefitting  the  other,  these  Considerations,  so  far  as 
the  said  Charges  involve  Matters  of  Account,  have  influenced 
your  Committee  to  leave  them  to  legal  Decision,  if  the  parties 
should  think  necessary — But  so  far  as  the  Committee  have 
thought  themselves  authorized,  to  investigate  the  specific 
Charges  of  the  Parties,  they  are  unanimously  of  opinion,  that 
the  Testimony  adduced,  is  not  sufficient  to  support  any  of 
those  Charges — Yet  from  a  general  View  of  the  whole  Pro- 
ceedings, they  are  obliged  to  observe,  (altho'  with  the  utmost 
Eegret  and  Reluctance)  that  both  the  said  Brethren  have 
inconsiderately  deviated  from  the  Path  of  Masonic  Duty — 
That  transported,  perhaps  by  Warmth  of  Temper,  they  have 
not  discovered  that  Tenderness  for  the  Weakness  and  Frailty 
of  human  Nature,  which  as  Members  of  Society  they  ought 
to  entertain,  and  which,  by  becoming  Masons,  they  in  a  more 
especial  Manner,  ought  to  exercise  towards  each  other — That 
instead  therefore  of  throwing  a  Veil  over  Foibles,  which  are 
perhaps  inseparable  from  Humanity,  they  have  manifested 

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a  spirit  very  unbecoming  that  Brotherly  Affection  which  is 
peculiarly  Characteristick  of  Masonry,  and  by  mutual  Re- 
criminations have  poisoned  those  Wounds  which  they  have 
mutually  inflicted,  and  which  might  otherwise  have  been 
easily  healed — Your  Committee  considering  that  Benevolence, 
Charity,  Forbearance,  Good  Will  and  the  forgiving  of  In- 
juries, are  among  the  Qualities  which  ought  in  a  special 
Manner  to  mark  the  Conduct  of  the  Members  of  our  ancient 
Fraternity;  and  being  desirous  that  Brothers  Procter  and 
Young  should  Reassume  that  Line  of  Conduct  which  becomes 
their  Masonic  Character  and  from  which  they  have  provoked 
each  other  to  depart,  submit  the  following  Resolution : 

Resolved  That  as  it  appears  to  our  Committee  that  the 
Charges  reciprocally  made  by  Brothers  Thomas  Procter  and 
Charles  Young  against  each  other,  have  not  been  supported. 
That  therefore  the  said  Brethren  be  enjoined  seriously  to 
consider  the  solemn  and  endearing  Ties,  by  which  they  are 
connected  together  as  Masons — That  by  a  mutual  Exchange 
of  good  Offices,  they  bury  in  Oblivion  all  and  every  Matter 
and  Thing,  which  has  heretofore  been  the  Cause  of  creating 
any  Animosity  between  them,  and  that  in  Order  to  close 
forever  this  unhappy  Breach,  restore  Harmony  to  our  Fra- 
ternity and  prevent  the  Improprieties  which  have  been  done 
and  written  upon  this  occasion,  from  ever  transpiring  to  the 
prejudice  of  our  ancient  and  sacred  Institution,  all  the  Books 
and  Papers  which  relate  solely  to  this  Subject,  be  totally  and 
entirely  Destroyed. 

Given  under  our  Hands  this  12th  Day  of  December  An. 
Dom.  1789. 

Jno.  Bankson  Wm.  Williams 

Wm.  Kidd  J.  McCreed 

Edward  Fox  Jos,  Freed. 

Praise  Wadman 

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There  is  no  record  whatever  to  be  found  that  the 
Provincial  warrant  of  Lodge  No.  2  was  ever  actually 
surrendered,  or  if  so  when. 

PKOVINCIAL  WARRANT   OF  LODGE  NO  2 

Wm.  Ball,  Grand  Master, 
John  Coats,  Deputy  Grand  Master. 
Alex,  Rutherford,  Jacob  S.  Howell, 

Senior  Grand  Warden.  Junior  Grand  Warden. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern: 
[L.  S.]  Whereas,  by  a  Warrant  bearing  Date  the  seventh 
day  of  June,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  fifty-eight,  and  of  Masonry  five  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  fifty-eight,  under  the  seal  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Free  and  Accepted  Ancient  Masons,  in  the  city  of  London, 
supersigned  by  the  Right  Worshipful  and  Right  Honorable, 
William,  Earl  of  Blessinton,  Grand  Master,  William  Hol- 
ford,  Esq.,  Deputy  Grand  Master,  Robert  Goodman,  Senior 
Grand  Warden,  W'".  Osborne,  Junior  Grand  Warden,  and 
undersigned  Laurence  Dermott,  Grand  Secretary.  With  the 
approbation  and  consent  of  Forty-seven  regular  York  Lodges, 
the  following  Brethren,  viz :  the  Worshipful  George  Brook, 
Master,  Joseph  Croker,  Senior  Warden,  and  John  INIacauly, 
Junior  Warden  (with  their  lawful  assistants),  were  author- 
ized and  appointed  to  hold  a  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  or  elsewhere,  in  the 
Province  of  Pennsylvania,  and  in  the  said  Lodge  (when  duly 
congregated),  to  admit,  enter,  and  make  Masons  according 
to  the  Ancient  and  honorable  custom  of  Royal  Craft,  in  all 
Ages  and  Nations  throughout  the  known  world;  and  also 
with  the  further  right,  privilege,  and  authority  to  nominate, 
choose,  and  instal  their  successors,  as  by  the  said  warrant 

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(reference  being  hereunto  had)  may  more  fully  appear.  And, 
Whereas,  the  said  warrant,  which  was  Registered  as  No.  69 
of  Ancient  York  Masons,  in  England,  but  has  been  held  as 
No.  2  in  Pennsylvania  (being  the  eldest  Warrant  under  the 
authority  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient  York  Masons  which 
is  now  in  this  State),  hath  been  surrendered  up  to  us,  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  by  the  present  officers  and 
Brethren  of  the  said  Lodge  No.  2,  praying  that  the  same  may 
be  renewed,  establishing  and  confirming  them  and  their  suc- 
cessors (under  the  authority  of  this  Grand  Lodge)  in  the 
Rank,  Dignity,  Preheminence,  and  Masonic  Privileges  to 
which  they  are  duly  entitled  by  their  former  warrant,  inas- 
much as  the  present  situation  of  affairs  perinits  them  not  to 
hold  that  correspondence  with  the  Grand  Lodge  (from  which 
they  derived  their  original  authority)  which  the  laudable 
customs  and  rules  of  Masonry  require.  Now,  be  it  known, 
to  all  whom  it  may  concern.  That  we,  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  the  District  of  America,  associated  and 
united  under  our  authority,  viz. :  The  Right  Worshipful  Wil- 
liam Ball,  Esq.,  Grand  Master,  John  Coats,  Esq.,  Deputy 
Grand  Master,  IM"".  Alexander  Rutherford,  Senior  Grand 
Warden,  and  ^M""  Jacob  Samuel  Howell,  Junior  Grand  Warden, 
with  the  full  authority  and  consent  of  twenty-four  regular 
Lodges  under  our  Jurisdiction,  Do  hereby  renew  and  confirm 
to  our  trusty  and  well-beloved  Brethren  Jacob  Bankson,  Esq., 
IMaster,  INP  Samuel  Jervis,  Senior  Warden,  M""  William  Cor- 
nelius Bradford,  Junior  Warden,  and  the  other  regular  and 
lawful  members  of  the  said  Lodge  No.  2,  of  Ancient  York 
Masons,  in  Philadelphia,  and  to  their  true  and  lawful  suc- 
cessors for  ever,  all  the  Masonic  Rights,  Privileges,  Authority, 
Jurisdiction,  and  Preheminence  which  (by  their  said  Original 
Warrant  herein  above  referred  to  and  in  part  recited)  they 

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are,  or  may  be,  in  any  manner  or  way  entitled  to  hold  and 
enjoy;  Provided,  always,  that  the  above-named  Brethren  and 
members  of  the  said  Lodge,  and  their  successors,  continue  at 
all  times  to  pay  due  respect  and  obedience  to  this  Right 
Worshipful  Grand  Lodge,  agreeably  to  the  Rules  and  Ordi- 
nances lawfully  made,  or  to  be  made,  for  the  Benefit  of 
Masonry,  and  the  advancement  of  our  Royal  Craft,  otherwise 
this  Warrant  to  be  of  no  force  or  virtue. 

Given  under  our  hands  and  the  seal  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
at  Philadelphia,  this  tenth  day  of  February,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  1780,  and  of  Masonry  5780 

Jno.  Wood,  Grand  Treasurer. 

William  Smith,  Grand  Secretary 

Recorded  this  17^'^  day  of  January,  1783 

Joseph  Howell,  Jr.  D''  G*^  Sec^. 

As  has  been  shown,  the  Lodge  was  represented  in 
Grand  Lodge  March  30,  1789.  In  June  15,  1789,  we, 
however,  find  the  following: 

Read  a  Petition  from  several  Brethren,  late  members  of 
Lodge  No.  2,  praying  a  warrant,  to  be  called  No.  2,  in  the 
Name  of  Praise  Wadman,  Master  Jacob  Bankson,  S.  W.,  and 
John  Salsbury,  J.  W.  Ordered  that  the  prayer  of  the  Peti- 
tioners be  granted. 

A  warrant  was  made  out  forthwith  to  take  the  place 
of  the  Provincial  Warrant  and  on  the  twenty-fourth 
of  June  the  officers  were  installed  by  the  Grand 
Officers,  and  the  first  Lodge  held  under  the  new  war- 
rant on  Thursday,  July  2,  1789. 

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The  Fourth  Minute  Book  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

''Lodge  No.  2  Antient  York  Masons  having  for 
many  years  been  a  very  Respectable  Lodge  held  in 
the  City  of  Philadelphia,  but  having  become  extinct 
several  of  its  Members  being  desirous  that  it  should 
again  be  revived  applied  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania  for  a  Warrant  in  consequence  of  which 
application  a  Warrant  did  issue  from  the  said  Grand 
Lodge,  bearing  date  Philadelphia  the  24th  day  of 
June  A.  D.  1789  and  of  Masonry  5789  authorizing 
and  impowering  Brother  Praise  Wadman,  Master, 
Jacob  Bankson,  Senior  Warden,  and  John  Salsbury, 
Junior  Warden  of  a  New  Lodge  No.  Two  to  be 
held  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia  in  the  State  of  Penn- 
sylvania or  within  Five  Miles  of  the  same  and  also 
authorizing  and  impowering  them  and  their  Succes- 
sors to  admit  and  make  Free  Masons  according  to 
the  most  Antient  and  Honorable  Custom  of  the  Royal 
Craft  in  all  Ages  and  Nations  throughout  the  known 
world  and  not  contrary  wise,  as  will  fully  appear  by 
having  Reference  to  said  Warrant.  And  the  said 
Warrant  having  been  so  obtained  as  aforesaid  the 
First  Lodge  under  the  authority  of  the  same  was  held 
at  Philadelphia,  Thursday,  July  2,  1789. 

''Present:  Brother  Praise  Wadman,  W  M;  Alex- 
ander Rutherford,  S.  W,  pro  tem;  John  Salsbury, 
J.  W;  Haley,  S.  D;  Polk,  J.  D;  and  Jacob  Bankson, 
Secty  p.  t; 

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''A  Master's  Lodge  was  opened  under  the  usual 
Penalties.  A  Prayer  was  delivered  by  the  Master. 
The  Warrant  which  hath  been  newly  obtained  was 
read,  signed  by  the  respective  Officers  of  the  Right 
Worshipful  the  Grand  Lodge  except  the  Junior  Grand 
Warden  who  was  absent. 

''The  Lodge  agreed  that  the  Second  Monday  in 
every  Month,  not  interfering  with  the  Stated  Appoint- 
ments of  other  Lodges  and  being  most  convenient  for 
the  Brethern  be  and  is  hereby  fixed  as  the  Time  of 
Stated  Meeting  of  this  Lodge  No.  2. 

''Brother  Frederick  Miller  is  nominated  as  Tyler 
and  is  to  be  allowed  for  his  services  One  Dollar  for 
every  Stated  Night  for  attendance  and  distributing 
Notices  to  the  several  Members." 

Brother  Jacob  Bankson  was  installed  as  Senior 
Warden  of  this  Lodge. 

Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  Yo  past  9  o'clock  and 
adjourned  to  the  next  Stated  Lodge  Night  Monday 
July  13th  1789. 

PMladelphia,  Monday,  Jidy  13,  1789.— Stated  Lodge 
night. 

Present,  Worshipful  Master,  Praise  Wadman  in  the 
Chair.  Brother  Alexander  Rutherford,  S.  W.  p.  t. 
John  Salsbury,  J.  W. ;  Morgan  S,  D,  p.  t;  William 
Guise  J,  D,  p.  t;  Joseph  Dean,  Secty  p.  t;  Visitors 
Brothers  Smith,  P  L  Duplessis,  and  J  Gardette. 

A  Master  Mason's  Lodge  was  opened  in  due  form. 

Brother  Robert   Crozier  was   appointed   Treasurer 

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and  Brother  Assheton  Humplireys  was  appointed 
Secretary  of  this  Lodge. 

Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  Ten  O'clock. 

Monday,  August  10,  1789. Stated  Lodge  night. 

Present  W.  M ;  Praise  Wadman  in  the  Chair.  Bro, 
Alexander  Rutherford  S.  W.  p.  t;  John  Salsbury 
J.  W;  John  Rice,  Robert  Crozier,  Treasurer.  Visi- 
tors, Brothers  J.  B.  Smith,  R.  W.  G.  M;  Shaw,  Dallet 
and  Lockart. 

An  Entered  Apprentices  Lodge  was  opened  in  due 
form.  The  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Master  being 
present  the  Lodge  requested  a  Dispensation  in  favour 
Mr.  John  Davidson  which  was  granted  and  being 
introduced  to  the  Lodge  he  received  the  First  De- 
gree in  Masonry,  returned  to  the  Lodge  and  gave 
thanks.  A  letter  from  Brother  Bankson  was  read 
informing  the  Lodge  of  his  being  indisposed  which 
prevented  his  attendance  on  the  Lodge  this  Evening. 
A  Petition  was  read  from  Messrs  William  Yard  and 
Francis  Hancong  praying  to  be  initiated  into  the 
Secrets  of  Masonry.  Brothers  Wadman  and  Rice  are 
appointed  a  Committee  to  enquire  the  Characters  of 
the  Petitioners.  Brother  Davidson  paid  into  the 
hands  of  Brother  Crozier,  Treasurer,  Six  Pounds  his 
initiation  Fee.  The  Treasurer  received  for  Refresh- 
ments 9/  4|^  and  paid  Brother  Miller  for  Refresh- 
ments 11/  b^  and  for  Tyling  7/  6^  makes  18/  ll''. 
Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  Ten  O'clock. 

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September  14,  1755.— Stated  Lodge  night.  Present 
10  members  and  ten  visiting  Bretliern  viz:  R.  W.  G. 
M.  J.  B.  Smith  Bros  Benj  Mason,  John  Sterling  569, 
John  Whitehead  No.  9,  James  Dillet  No.  9,  Lawson 
Pearson,  Enoch  Bailey,  William  Williams  No.  9,  Enoch 
Scott  No.  202,  Isaac  Huff  No.  3. 

Brother  Jno  Davidson  received  the  F.  C.  Degree 
and  Wm  Yard  and  F.  Hancong  were  iniated. 

A  Committee  consisting  of  Brothers  Bankson, 
Crozier  and  Humphreys  were  appointed  to  prepare 
a  code  of  Laws  for  the  government  of  this  Lodge. 

Brothers  Dean  and  Rutherford  were  appointed  to 
meet  the  Committees  of  other  Lodges  on  the  propriety 
of  renting  a  room  for  the  purposes  of  Masonry. 

Monday,  October  5,  i^SP.— Extra  Lodge.  Present 
9  Members  and  8  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M. 
J.  B.  Smith,  Bros.  Mason  No.  19,  E.  Hewlings  No.  14, 
Shaw  No.  9,  W"  Will  No.  3,  Terrence  O'Hanning,  A. 
Chapman  No.  7,  Nova  Scotia,  Mclsaac. 

Bro.  Hancong  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft  and  Master 
Mason. 

Monday,  October  12,  i7<SP.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  7  Members  and  2  Visitors.  Bro  W"  Will 
No.  3,  George  Thomston  No.  3,  Newberrj^Dort,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Bro.  Davidson  advanced  to  Master  Mason. 

Monday,  November  9,  i7SP.  — Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  5  Members  and  one  Visitor,  Bro.  William 
Brown. 

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Monday,  December  21,  1789.— Adjourned  meeting. 
Present  7  Members  and  6  Visitors,  Bros.  John  Ser- 
vice, John  Wilson,  Jas.  Martin,  John  Thompson, 
Allison,  Bedford. 

Bro.  Rutherford  and  Dean  were  added  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  By  Laws. 

Election  for  Officers  for  the  ensuing  Twelve  Months 
then  took  place,  when  Brother  Jacob  Bankson  was 
duly  and  legally  elected  Master  Alexander  Rutherford 
Senior  Warden,  James  Sutter,  Junior  Warden,  Robert 
Crozier,  Treasurer;  and  Brother  Humphreys  was  ap- 
pointed Secretary;  Bro  Salsbury  S.  D;  and  Bro  Jno 
Rice,  J.  D; 

The  Worshipful  Master  then  proceeded  to  the 
Installment  of  Officers  when  all  the  elected  Officers 
were  duly  installed. 

3  Initiations  during  1789. 

January  11,  1790.— stated  Lodge  night.  Present 
6  Members  and  6  Visitors  viz:  R.  W.  G.  M.  Jonathan 
B.  Smith,  Bros.  Martin  Colley,  P.  Le  Barbier 
Duplessis,  Williams  and  McDonald. 

An  E.  A.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form,  when  the 
W.  M.  was  pleased  to  deliver  a  charge  reminding 
every  member  of  this  Lodge  of  his  Duty,  etc. 

A  Letter  was  read  from  Bro  Thomas  Mewse  stating 
that  he  was  formerly  a  member  of  Old  Lodge  No.  2 
and  had  lost  his  Certificate,  and  asking  for  a  New 
Certificate  from  this  Lodge,  he  was  referred  to  the 

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Grand  Lodge  they  having  the  Books  and  Papers  of 
the  old  Lodge. 

"On  Motion  an  application  be  made  by  this  Lodge 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  by  Petition  or 
Letter  to  restore  to  this  Lodge  the  property  belonging 
to  the  late  Lodge  No.  2,  Ordered  that  the  Committee 
upon  the  Bye  Laws  prepare  a  Petition  or  Letter  to 
the  Grand  Lodge  for  that  purpose." 

February  8,  i7P^.— Stated  Lodge  night.  Present 
3  members  and  8  visitors  viz:— R.  W.  G.  M.  Jno.  B. 
Smith— Bros  Duplessis— Delaustal— Giese— Lormer 
W"  Williams— John  Flanagan— Colley. 

The  Committee  on  By-Laws  reported  that  they  had 
prepared  a  code  of  Laws  for  the  government  of  this 
Lodge  (there  being  but  few  members  attending) 
ordered  that  the  same  lie  over  for  Consideration. 

March  8,  i75^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  4  members 
&  8  visitors  including  R.  W.  D.  G.  M.  Geo  Ord,  and 
Gr'd  Secty. 

The  Deputy  Grand  Master,  accompanied  by  the 
Grand  Secretary  visited  the  Lodge,  who  examined  the 
warrant  and  the  Bye-Laws  of  the  Lodge  and  were 
satisfied. 

April  12,  :Z75^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  four  mem- 
bers &  three  visitors.  Bros.  Flanagan,  Burne,  Enoch 
Baily. 

1  Petition  The  W  M  requested  that,  ''the  Secty 
issue  summones  to  every  member  of  this  Lodge  re- 
questing their  punctual  attendance  next  stated  Lodge 

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Night,  as  the  full  completion  of  the  Bye  Laws  is  the 
principal  business  of  the  Lodge  for  that  night. 

[The  death  of  Benjamin  Franklin  took  place  April 
17,  1790.  This  occurrence,  it  would  naturally  be 
supposed,  would  have  elicited  from  the  Freemasons 
resolutions  of  sorrow,  and  it  might  have  been  ex- 
pected that  they  would  participate  in  public  testi- 
monials of  respect  for  the  character  of  the  deceased; 
but  in  those  solemnities  the  Masons  as  an  organization 
took  no  active  part.  They  did  not  attend  the  fun- 
eral in  a  Masonic  character,  nor  did  they  pass  reso- 
lutions of  respect,  such  as  were  passed  by  other 
societies.  The  fact  was  Dr.  Franklin  was  not  an 
"Ancient"  Mason.  Although  he  was  a  Past  Grand 
Master  of  the  '^ Moderns,"  those  distinctions  won  for 
him  no  official  consideration  with  the  "Ancients"— 
hence  their  non-participation  in  the  ceremonies  of 
sepulture  and  regret.] 

Monday,  May  10, 1790.— stated  Lodge  night.  Pres- 
ent W  M  Jacob  Bankson  S.  W.  Alex  Rutherford  & 
Treas  Robt  Crozier.  Lodge  adjourned  until  next 
Stated  Lodge  night. 

Monday,  June  14,  1790. Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  9  members  and  7  visiting  Brethren,  E.  W. 
G.  M.  J.  B.  Smith-Taylor-Street-West-Ball- 
Tilton-Colley.  Elijah  Cozens  initated  &  Bros  Fisher 
Milnor  Baker  &  Jervis,  old  members  were  approved. 

A  Letter  was  received  from  the  R.  W.  Grand  Secre- 
tary enclosing  an  impression  of  the  seal  of  the  Grand 

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Lodge  also  four  copies  of  tlie  rules  and  Regulations 
of  the  Grand  Lodge,  which  were  ordered  to  be  put 
on  the  files  of  the  Lodge. 

Monday,  July  12,  175^.— Present  5  members  &  4 
Visiting  Brethren,  R.  W.  G.  M.  J.  B.  Smith— Bros. 
Ball— Martin — Mullowney. 

Monday,  August  9,  i7P^.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  5  members  and  2  Visiting  Brethren.  Bros 
Copeland  No.  9— Claypoole  No.  19.  A  Letter  was 
read  from  the  R.  W.  G.  M,  requesting  the  W.  M.  to 
take  the  sense  of  this  Lodge  respecting  their  removal 
to  the  Quaker  Meeting,  (S  W  cor  5  &  Arch  Sts)  so 
few  members  being  present  could  not  go  into  that 
business.  Bro  E  Cozens  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft 
and  Master  Mason. 

Monday,  September  13,  i7P(?.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
R.  W.  G.  M.  J.  B.  Smith  in  the  Chair,  present  3 
members  and  4  Visiting  Brethren.  Bros.  Joseph  Few 
— Duplessis— Colley— John  Moody  No.  10,  Virginia. 
The  Business  respecting  the  Lodge's  removal  to  the 
Quaker  Meeting  was  continued  on  account  of  so  few 
a  number  of  members  belonging  to  this  Lodge  being 
present  and  no  other  business  appearing  Lodge  was 
adjourned  to  Friday  evening  at  7  0 'Clock  of  which 
the  Secty  was  desired  to  give  notice  to  the  Members 
and  to  inform  them  that  the  Officers  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  intend  on  that  night  to  visit  this  Lodge. 

[No  record  of  this  adjourned  meeting.— J.  F.  S.] 

Philadelphia,    Monday,    October   11,    i750.— Stated 

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Lodge  night.  Present  4  Members  and  3  Visiting 
Brethren.  ''On  Motion  Resolved,  That  the  Lodge 
will  meet  in  future  in  the  Grand  Lodge  Room  corner 
of  Arch  and  Fifth  Streets  and  pay  its  proportion  of 
the  rent  and  repairs  of  the  said  Lodge  Room. ' ' 

December  13,  i750.— Stated  Lodge  night.  Present 
4  Members  &  5  Visitors.  Bros.  Benj.  Mason  No.  19— 
Enoch  Baily—Duplessis—Colley— Bedford. 

1  Petition    Election  postponed  until  24  Dec 

Friday,  December  24,  i75^.— Extra  Lodge.  Present 
4  Members  and  1  Visiting  Brother  and  Election  again 
postponed  until  25  Dec  1790  when  there  were  8 
Members  present  and  3  Visiting  Brethren. 

1  Petition  received.  Election  for  Officers,  then  took 
place  Bro  Jacob  Bankson  W.  M.  Praise  Wadman 
S.  W;  Samuel  Jervis  J.  W;  Assheton  Humphreys 
Secty  and  Robert  Crozier  Treasurer.  W.  M.  apptd 
Bro  Rice  S.  D.  &  Bro  Fisher  J.  D.  after  which  the 
Officers  elected  were  duly  installed. 

With  the  growth  of  the  Fraternity  in  the  State  it 
soon  became  evident  that  the  quarters  in  Vidall's 
Alley  were  too  small  for  the  uses  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 
Consequently  a  Committee  was  appointed  September 
28'^  1789  to  confer  with  the  Committes  of  the  other 
Lodges  of  the  city  ''upon  the  propriety  of  renting  a 
room  for  the  purposes  of  Masonry." 

At  the  Communication  December  6,  1790,  reported 

as  follows: 

The  Committee  appointed  to  take  the  room  over  the  Free 

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Quakers'  Meeting  House,  reported  that  the  same  had  been 

taken  for  nine  years  from  the  23d  day  of /  and  that  the 

several  Lodges  had  agreed  by  their  Committees  (excepted 
No.  9)  to  pay  their  respective  shares  of  the  rent,  which  is 
seventy-five  pounds  per  annum,  and  of  the  expenses  of  mov- 
ing and  fitting  up  the  said  room:  the  Grand  Lodge  to  pay 
no  proportion  at  all. 

Monday,  January  10,  I791.—Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  11  Members  &  11  Visiting  Brethren. 

Geo  Kitts  initated  &  Bro  Bailey  approved  for  mem- 
bership. 

Monday,  February  14,  17 91. —Stsited  Lodge  night. 
Present  11  Members  &  12  Visiting  Brethren  including 
R.  W.  G.  M.  Jno.  B.  Smith  and  Elisha  Kennedy  Union 
No.  6. 

Bro  Geo  Kitts  was  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft. 

**The  W.  M.  then  delivered  an  Eulogium  in  praise 
of  our  late  Worthy  Brother  Alexander  Rutherford, 
deceased."^ 

Bro  Eich'^  Hunt  approved  &  1  Petition  (John 
Taylor). 

Monday,  March  14,  1791.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  9  members  &  13  Visiting  Brethren  including 
R  W  G.  M.  J.  B.  Smith-Jas  Brown  No  336-W° 
Lawrence  No  3— Alex  Hardy  No  9— W.  H.  Sellers  No 
15— Isaac  Price  No  9. 

Bro  Geo  Kitts  advanced  to  Master  Mason. 

^  December. 

^  One  of  the  most  active  members  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

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Monday,  May  9,  i7Pi.— Present  5  Members  &  4 
Visiting  Brethren  including  R.  W.  G.  M. 

A  M.  M.  Lodge  opened  in  due  form— A  resolve  from 
the  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge  recommending  the  payment 
of  the  proportion  of  this  Lodge  of  the  expences  attend- 
ing the  moving  and  fitting  up  the  present  Lodge  room 
amounting  to  Thirty-five  Dollars  was  read  when  on 
Motion  and  Seconded  few  members  attending,  the 
Consideration  of  the  said  recommendation  was  post- 
poned to  the  next  meeting.  Brother  Secretary  having 
not  attended  nor  sent  the  Minute  Book  the  Lodge 
could  not  proceed  to  business  and  was  closed  at  9 
Oclock  in  Harmony. 

Wednesday,  Jidy  20,  i75i.— Extra  Lodge.  Present 
9  Members  «fe  Visiting  Brother  William  Peter  Sprague. 

1  Petition  ''Ordered  that  Bros  Hunt  &  Kitts  call 
on  the  W  M  of  this  body  before  the  next  stated  Lodge 
Night  with  a  copy  of  the  Minutes  of  this  evening" 
(W  M  was  absent). 

Monday,  August  8,  1751.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  8  Members  &  9  Visiting  Brethren. 

John  Cope  initiated.  "The  Lodge  then  appointed 
Brothers  Hunt  &  Jervis  as  Guardians  to  instruct 
Brother  Cope." 

Monday,  September  12,  17Pi.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  10  Members  &  17  Visiting  Brethren.  "The 
W  M  after  addressing  the  Lodge  in  due  form  Reported 
that  he  had  been  applied  to  by  a  person  of  the  name 
of  Thomas  Search  to  propose  him  to  the  Lodge  as  a 

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Member  that  the  said  Thomas  Search  is  a  Clandestine 
Mason,  and  it  will  not  be  amiss  to  appoint  a  Com- 
mittee to  make  some  enquiry"  Committee  appointed. 
Bro  Eichard  Hunt  apptd  Treas"" 

Monday,  October  10,  1791. Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  9  Members  &  5  Visiting  Brethren. 

Committee  on  Thos  Search  reported  favorable  and 
he  was  approved  and  initiated  Bro  Cope  advanced 
to  Fellow  Craft.  Bros  Jervis  &  Hunt  apptd  Guard- 
ians to  instruct  Bro  Search 

Monday,  November  14,  1791.— 'Present  7  Members  & 
5  Visiting  Brethren.  Bro  Search  advanced  to  Fellow 
Craft. 

Monday,  December  12,  i7Pi.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  6  Members  &  1  Visiting  Brother. 

Election  resulted  as  follows  Bro  Jacob  Bankson, 
Master,  Praise  Wadman  S.  W.  Samuel  Jervis,  J.  W. 
Rich'*  Hunt  Treas'"  Lodge  adjourned  to  next  Monday 
for  the  Installation  of  Officers.     Geo.  A.  Baker  Secty 

On  St.  John's  day,  December  27,  1791,  a  suitable 
oration  was  delivered  before  the  Grand  Lodge  and 
the  Brethren  in  the  morning,  and  at  three  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon  a  dinner  to  celebrate  the  feast  was 
provided  at  Oeller's  Hotel,  on  the  south  side  of 
Chestnut  Street,  just  west  of  Sixth  Street.  This  was 
the  first  official  celebration  of  St.  John's  Day  since 
Washington  had  been  elected  President  of  the  United 
States.  In  the  meantime,  during  the  year,  Philadel- 
phia had  been  selected  for  the  capital  city,  and  Wash- 

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ington  resided  on  the   south  side   of  Market   Street 
east  of  Sixth. 

Upon  this  festive  occasion,  the  Rev.  Bro.  Dr.  Smith 
and  the  R.  W.  Grand  officers,  were  appointed  a  com- 
mittee to  prepare  an  address  to  our  '^Illustrious  Bro. 
George  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States," 
the  original  draft  of  which,  as  well  as  a  copy  as 
delivered  to  Washington,  is  shown  in  the  Grand  Lodge 
Library.     It  was  as  follows: 

To  His  Excellency  George  Washington,  President  of  the 

United  States. 
Sir  and  Brother: 

The  Ancient  York  Masons  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, for  the  first  time  assembled  in  General  Communicatio7i 
to  celebrate  the  Feast  of  S*.  John  the  Evangelist,  since  your 
Election  to  the  Chair  of  Government  in  the  United  States,  beg 
leave  to  approach  you  with  Congratulations  from  the  East, 
and  in  the  pride  of  Fraternal  affection  to  hail  you  as  the 
Great  Master  Builder  (under  the  Supreme  Architect)  by 
whose  Labours  the  Temple  of  Liberty  hath  been  reared  in 
the  West,  exhibiting  to  the  Nations  of  the  Earth  a  Model  of 
Beauty,  Order  and  Harmony  worthy  of  their  Imitation  and 
Praise. 

Your  Knowledge  of  the  Origin  and  Objects  of  our  Institu- 
tion; its  Tendency  to  promote  the  Social  Affections  and  har- 
monize the  Heart,  give  us  a  sure  pledge  that  this  tribute  of 
our  Veneration,  this  Effusion  of  our  Love  will  not  be  un- 
grateful to  you ;  nor  will  Heaven  reject  our  Prayer  that  you 
may  be  long  continued  to  adorn  the  bright  List  of  Master 
workmen  which  our  Fraternity  produces  in  the  terrestrial 

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Lodge;  and  that  you  may  be  late  removed  to  that  Celestial 
Lodge   where   Love   and   Harmony   reign   transcendent   and 
Divine;  where  the  Great  Architect  more  immediately  pre- 
sides, and  where  Cherubim  and  Seraphim,  wafting  our  Con- 
gratulations from  Earth  to  Heaven,  shall  hail  you  Brother. 
By  order  and  in  behalf  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
[seal]       Pennsylvania    in    general    Communication    as- 
sembled in  ample  form 
(Signed)  J.  B.  Smith,  G.  M. 

Attest:  P.  Le  Barrier  Duplessis,  G^.  Secry. 

January  2,  1792.— A  Grand  Lodge  by  adjournment 
was  held  and  the  report  of  the  committee  was  sub- 
mitted and  adopted.  The  exact  date  upon  which 
this  address  was  delivered  and  answered  is  not 
known.  At  the  grand  quarterly  communication  held 
March  5,  1792,  it  was  unanimously  resolved  that  the 
said  address  and  answer  thereto  should  be  entered 
upon  the  minutes.  The  original  answer  is  to  be  seen 
in  the  Grand  Lodge  Library. 

To  THE  Ancient  York  Masons  op  the  Jurisdiction  of  Penn- 
sylvania. 

Gentlemen  and  Brothers: 

I  receive  your  kind  Congratulations  with  the  purest  Sensa- 
tions of  fraternal  affection,  and  from  a  Heart  deeply  im- 
pressed with  your  generous  wishes  for  my  present  and  future 
Happiness  I  beg  you  to  accept  of  my  thanks. 

At  the  same  time  I  request  you  will  be  assured  of  my  best 
wishes  and  earnest  prayers  for  your  Happiness  while  you 
remain  in  this  terrestrial  JMansion,  and  that  we  may  hereafter 

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meet  as  brethren  in  the  Eternal   Temple  of  the   Supreme 
Architect. 

(Signed)  G.   Washington. 

Monday,  February  13,  175^.— Present  10  members 
&  5  Visiting  Brethren.  1  Petition  with  Dispensation 
from  Joshua  Z  Cozens  was  approved,  Bro  Jno  Cope 
advanced  to  Master  Mason.  A  Petition  from  Bro 
Henry  Robinson  for  membership  was  approved.  Peti- 
tion from  Jno  Eiley  referred  to  Committee 

Monday,  March  12,  i755.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  10  members  &  10  Visiting  Brethren.  Jno 
Riley  approved  &  initiated— Bro  Jno  Service  formerly 
a  member  of  No  9  approved— Bro  Joshua  Z  Cozens 
advanced  to  Fellow  Craft. 

Monday,  April  9,  i7P^.— Stated  Lodge  night.  Pres- 
ent 12  members  &  8  Visiting  Brethren.  Petition  from 
Thos  Fenton— Bro  Jno  Riley  advanced  to  Fellow 
Craft.  ''The  W.  M.  Jacob  Bankson  finding  himself 
too  much  indisposed  to  continue  any  longer  he  re- 
quested the  S.  W.  to  take  the  Chair." 

Monday,  May  14,  i7P^.— Present  14  Members  &  11 
Visiting  Brethren  R  W  G  M  Jonathan  B  Smith. 
Petitions  from  Wm  Chadwick  &  James  Pattison.  The 
Bye  Laws  as  proposed  by  the  Committee  were  read 
and  referred  to  a  Committee.  Resolved  "That  as 
soon  as  the  Bye  Laws  shall  be  approved  of,  this  Lodge 
do  pay  to  the  Grand  Lodge  our  part  of  the  Arrearages 
of  Rent  up  to  that  time  and  from  thence  forward  the 

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sum  of  Ten  Dollars  half  yearly  on  every  St  John's 
dayJ 

^  The  following  bill  of  items  was  found  among  the  old  Papers  of 
Lodge  No.  2  and  gives  us  an  interesting  insight  of  the  furnishings 
of  the  Lodge  room  in  the  old  meeting  house  of  the  free  Quakers. 

By  order  of  the  Comity  of  the  G.  Lodge  of  Free  &  Excepted 
Masons  Philadelphia  Dr 

July  7  to  Sam*  Benge.    Upholster 

To  puting  black  ribon  for  mourning  on  the  grand 

officers  aprons  7 —  6 

1  Do  new  for  G.  Master 5—7 

to  Clensing  Velvet  Coushin  &  Silk  Fringe  and  puting 

Lace  on  Do   3 —  9 

to  Covering  to  Formes  with  Green  Bays — ^Brass  nails, 

Green  Binding,  Tacks  &c 3 —  9 —  7 

7^  yds  Wilton  Carpeting  at  6/6    Brase  nails.  Tape. 

Black  Tacks  makeing  &  puting  down 3 —  8 —  3 

181/2  yds  Best  3/2  Scotch  Carpeting  @  5/3 4—16—  11/2 

To  makeing  Brase  Nails,  Black  Tacks  Tape  &  puting 

down 1 —  2 —  6 

151/^  yd  Crimson  Morreen  at  3/9     For  Canipy  and 

Wardin  Pedistalls 2—18—  11/2 

21  yd  Best  White  Fringed  @  8 14—  0 

16  yd  White  Bed  Lace  @  3 4—0 

4  Best  Tosells  @  20 6—8 

pd  For  Frame,  iron  Hasp  Brase  Wire  to  Canipy 6 —  9 

To  making  and  puting  up 12 —  6 

2%  Yd  Green  Serge  for  Wardens  Caushine  2/10. . .  7—8 

Repickmg  haire  making  and  stuffing 4 —  6 

9  yds  Green  binding  to  Do 1 —  6 

To  Washing  the  Six  Window  Curtins,  takeing  down 

and  puting  up  again  with 1 —  2 —  6 

24  new  Tosells  at  1/6 1—16—  0 

pd  for  6  Boards  for  fronts  to  the  Curtains 3 —  9 

to  puting  Deep  Festoon  Border  on  West  Side 9 —  9I/2 

to  puting  morning  on  G.  P.  Aprons 3 —  9 


Sep  3  inclusive  23—  4—101/2 

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inn^cr  tbe  IRiobt  Morsbtpful  6rant)  %ot>QC 

The  Minutes  of  this  evening  were  read  and  the 
Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  10  o'clock. 

Monday,  June  11,  iT'P^.— Stated  Lodge  night.  Pres- 
ent 9  Members  «&  3  Visiting  Brethren.  Bye  Laws 
as  recommended  by  Committee  were  taken  up,  read 
by  paragraphs  unanimously  adopted.  Bro  Riley  ad- 
vanced to  Master  Mason. 

Monday,  July  9,  i752.— Stated  Lodge  night.  Pres- 
ent 9  Members  and  2  Visiting  Brethren.  Bro  Robt 
Lumden  of  No  9  proposed  and  approved,  Capt°  Isaac 
McKinnie  approved  and  initiated  Dr  J.  Morris  pro- 
posed 

Monday,  August  13,  i75^.— Stated  Lodge  night. 
Present  14  Members  &  13  Visiting  Brethren.  Dr. 
Morris  Petition  withdrawn.  Bro  Isaac  McKinnie 
advanced  to  Fellow  Craft. 

Monday,  September  10,  17P5.— Present  15  Members 
and  4  Visitors.  Bros  Archibald  Gay,  McKarrahar, 
Carson,  Kinsley,  No.  3.  Letter  from  Dr.  John  Morris 
asking  the  Lodge  to  still  consider  his  Petition  as  being 
before  the  Lodge,  which  was  granted  and  Dr  Morris 
was  approved  and  initiated.  Petition  of  Joseph 
Gamble— Bros    Search    and    McKinnie    advanced    to 

Another  bill 

The  other  bill 3—19—11 


Examined  &  Allowed  by 
J  McCree 
W.  Williams 

Committee  of  Accounts 
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Master  Mason.— Bro  Bailey  withdrew,  as  lie  removes 
to  another  state. 

Monday,  October  8,  i7P5.— Stated  Lodge  Night. 
Present  12  Members  &  15  Visitors  including  R.  AV. 
G.  M.  &  S.  a.  W.  Thomas  Proctor. 

Bro.  Michael  Kennedy  No  19 

"  William  King  No  3 

"  John  Thompson  No  52 

"  W™  Davison  No  9  New  York 

"  Chas  McCann  No  2  New  York 

"  Jacob  Bower  No  10  London 

"  Richard  Babe  No  3 

"  W""  Lawrence  No  3 

"  W™  Espey  No  3  Ireland 

"  Cadwallader  Griffith 

"  W"  Ellison  No  52 

"  John  Hanlon  No  4  London 

Ephraim  White  and  Charles  Simms  were  approved 
they  having  a  Dispensation  from  G.  L.  and  were 
initated.     Bro.  Morris  advanced  to  Master  Mason. 

October  16,  i7P5.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  17  mem- 
bers and  13  Visitors  present. 

Bro.  W™  Sellers 

"  W°  Rice  No  4 

"  Charles  Devine  No  526  Ireland 

"  Charles  Dillet  No  1575  Ireland 

"  Edward  Farrone  No  592  Ireland 

"  Jacob  Bower  No  10  London 

"  Chas.  McCann  No  2  New  York 

"  Brooks 

"  James  Dillet  No  9 

"  Felix  McCarty  No  67  Cork 

a  -^m  Da\ddson  No  S.  New  York 

"  Dennis  McCarty  No  9 
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lanber  the  IRtabt  Morsbipful  6ranD  XoOge 

Bro.  W™   Lawrence  No  3 
"      John  Hanlon  No  4  London 
"     W"  Espey  No  3  Ireland 
"      Griffin  No  52 

Bro  Wliite  &  Simms  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft  & 
Master  Mason.  Bro  McKinnie,  Wliite  &  Simms  with- 
drew as  they  were  about  leaving  the  state.  Bro 
Wm  Espy  received  a  certificate  to  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  his  having  been  examined  and  upon  strict  tryal 
found  to  be  an  Ancient  York  Mason  and  as  such  had 
been  received  and  admitted  as  a  visiting  Brother  in 
this  Lodge. 

November  12,  i7P5.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
14  Members  &  11  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M. 
Jonathan  B.  Smith.  Petition  received  from  Geo. 
Laney.— Petition  for  membership  from  Bro  John 
0  Hara  a  M.  M.  of  Lodge  No.  178  Lisbum,  Ireland, 
was  approved.  Bro.  Morris  advanced  to  Master 
Mason.      Joseph   Gamble   approved. 

December  10,  J755.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
18  members  &  18  Visitors.  Geo  Lany  approved  and 
Jno  Gamble  &  Geo.  Laney  initiated.  Bro  Edw^ 
Farone.  approved  and  admitted.  A  petition  was  pre- 
sented from  Bro  O'Hara,  setting  forth  that  expres- 
sions injurious  to  his  character  had  been  made  by 
Brother  Thomas  Wilkins  of  Lodge  No  9  and  praying 
that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  make  inquiry  re- 
specting the  premises  giving  notice  to  the  said  Thomas 
Wilkins   of  the   time   and  place   of  meeting  of   said 

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committe,  that  a  report  of  the  proceedmgs  of  the 
committe  may  be  transmitted  to  the  secretary  of  this 
Lodge  in  order  to  ground  an  application  to  the  Grand 
Lodge.  Upon  consideration  the  worshipful  Master 
and  Bros.  Service  and  Kitts  were  appointed  a  com- 
mitte according  to  the  prayer  of  said  petition. 
Election  of  Officers— Jacob  Bankson  W  M  Samuel 
Jervis  S.  W.  Jno  Kice  J.  W.  Eich-^  Hunt  Treas^  The 
W.  M.  apptd  Jno  Service  S  D,  John  Eiley  J  D. 
Geo  A  Baker  Secty 


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CHAPTER   XVIII. 

The  Close  of  the  Eighteenth  Centuey,  1793-1799. 


HE  year  1793  was  a  portentous  one. 
Philadelphia,  having  become  the  seat  of 
the  federal  government,  became  a  haven 
for  a  class  of  emigrants,  who  were  des- 
tined to  exert  a  baneful  influence  upon 
our  whole  social  and  political  economy,  and  for  a 
time  even  threaten  the  stability  of  our  government, 
going  so  far  as  to  attempt  the  impeachment  and  over- 
throw of  President  Washington.  These  emigrants 
were  known  as  French  emigres.  The  first  to  arrive 
were  fugitive  royalists,  then  came  the  fugitives  from 
San  Domingo  and  later  Genet,  the  representative  of 
the  French  Republic,  and  his  followers.  The  story 
of  the  French  agitators  is  well  known;  how  they 
decried  all  religion  and,  during  the  Epidemic  of  that 
fateful  year,  succeeded  in  closing  all  but  two 
churches  in  the  city.^ 
From  our  minutes,  however,  we  find  that  this  agita- 

^"  Religious  and  Social  Conditions  of  Philadelphia,  1790-1800," 
by  Julius  F.  Sachse,  Philadelphia,  1900. 

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tion  by  the  misguided  foreigners  bad  but  little  or  no 
effect  upon  our  Lodges.  This  tide  of  atheism  and 
rationalism  found  no  entrance  within  the  tiled 
portals  of  our  halls.  Regular  meetings  were  held 
and  the  work  done  during  the  whole  of  this  trying 
period,  with  the  great  light  of  Freemasonry  always 
present  and  unclouded. 

Even  during  the  fearful  epidemic  of  the  year  1793 
regular  stated  meetings  were  held,  until  the  middle 
of  September,  when  the  death  rate  had  increased  at 
such  a  terrible  rate  that  the  Grand  Lodge  ordered  a 
suspension  from  labor  until  all  danger  was  past  and 
the  health  and  population  had  returned  to  its  normal 
conditions. 

In  the  report  of  the  Centennial  Committee  of  Lodge 
No.  2  of  November  15,  1858,  we  find  the  following: 

The  memorable  yellow  fever  year  1793  was  a  period  when 
Masonry  blazed  forth  in  its  brightest  light.  The  craft  in  that 
year  was  found  at  the  bedside  of  suffering  humanity,  tending 
and  conmforting  the  sick  in  their  dying  hours.  The  members 
of  Lodge  No;  2  deserted  their  Lodge  Room  but  met  weekly 
at  each  other's  houses,  and  there  consulted  as  to  their  conduct. 
The  masonic  work  of  the  craft  was  entirely  neglected  for  the 
social  duties  of  the  fraternity,  and  the  yearly  dues  were  for 
that  year  remitted.  Theirs  was  a  glorious  but  melancholy 
vocation  for  seven  of  the  members  fell  victims  to  the  fearful 
epidemic.^ 

Some  idea  of  the  condition  of  the  city  during  the 
summer  of  this  year  may  be  formed  from  the  fol- 
lowing gleanings  from  the  official  reports,  viz.,  from 

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August  1  to  November  9  there  were  no  less  than 
4,041  deaths  from  the  epidemic  in  Philadelphia.  Of 
the  6,327  dwelling  houses  then  in  Philadelphia  2,728 
were  abandoned  by  the  owners,  and  11,906  of  the 
white  inhabitants  out  of  a  total  of  34,835  fled  from 
the  city.^ 

Among  the  members  of  the  Citizen's  Committee 
formed  to  alleviate  the  sufferings  of  the  afflicted,  no 
names  shine  out  brighter  than  those  of  Brothers 
Stephen  Girard,  Lodge  No.  3,  Israel  Israel,  Lodge 
No.  3,  and  Mathew  Clarkson. 

How  this  terrible  plague  affected  our  fraternity 
becomes  apparent  from  the  pages  of  our  old  minute 
books  in  the  record  of  the  many  cases  of  relief  to 
the  widows  and  orphans  of  our  deceased  brethren. 

The  following  graphic  account  of  the  dreadful 
scourge  was  written  by  a  Brother  Mason  in  Phila- 
delphia and  sent  to  the  Freemason's  Magazine  in  Lon- 
don, wherein  it  was  published.^ 

Philadelphia,  October  16,  1793. 

From  the  first  appearance,  till  towards  the  close  of  August 
the  dangerous  enemy  we  had  in  the  city  was  hardly  known; 

"  The  yellow  fever  of  1793  first  made  it  appearance  at  The  Red 
Stores  belonging  to  Sum  mere  &  Brown  which  were  in  the  second 
wharf  above  Arch  Street.  The  first  victims  were:  (1)  Mrs.  Maria 
Lemaigre  (widow  of  Peter  Lemaigre,  merchant  of  77  North  Water 
Street,  1793),  a  French  lady;  (2)  the  stevedore  of  the  ship  that 
brought  it  to  the  wharf,  and  (3)  Mr.  William  Burkhard,  of  57 
North  Water  Street.  Ritter's  "  Philadelphia  and  her  Merchants," 
p.  26. 

^Freemason's  Magazine,  London,  November,  1793,  p.  527. 

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the  deaths  of  several  persons  were  successively  announced 
in  the  Papers,  and  read  with  the  unconcern  usual  on  such 
occasions. 

At  length,  the  alarm  spread  through  the  city.  The  de- 
structive nature  of  the  disease  was  generally  known,  and 
many  persons,  aware  of  the  danger,  removed  with  their 
families  to  different  parts  of  the  country.  Numbers  of  our 
most  useful  and  respectable  citizens  who  remained  in  the 
city,  were  hurried  into  eternity. 

The  terror  now  became  universal.  The  emigrations  to  the 
country  were  very  great — and  about  the  middle  of  September, 
it  is  supposed,  that  12  or  15,000  of  the  inhabitants  of  Phila- 
delphia had  deserted  the  city. 

But  it  is  time  our  fellow  citizens  throughout  the  United 
States,  should  know  as  nearly  as  possible  the  real  state  of 
our  city.  The  mortality  which  has  raged,  has  carried  off  to 
this  day  about  3000  persons.  About  23,000  people  have  left 
city,  and  above  30,000  remain  behind.  These,  notwithstand- 
ing the  terror  of  the  country  people,  find  plentiful  markets. 
Beef  is  sold  7d. — mutton  5d. — veal  7d. — butter  Is.  6d.  Is.  8d. 
and  2s.  per  pound;  and  in  general  all  other  articles  in  pro- 
portion. Business  is  not  entirely  at  a  stand.  Many  stores 
are  still  open,  and  even  now,  not  many  more  than  half  our 
houses  are  deserted.  The  Banks  have  not  ceased  discounting 
a  single  day  since  the  commencement  of  this  disorder. 

Among  the  most  revolting  circumstances  attending  this 
scourge,  is  the  cruelty  exercised  against  some  who  are,  and 
many  who  are  only  supposed  to  be,  infected.  Two  or  three 
persons,  travelling  in  the  stages  to  New- York,  being  taken 
sick,  were  compelled  by  their  fellow  passengers  to  leave  the 
stage,  with  their  baggage,  when  on  the  road,  wearied  and  dis- 
tressed, they  could  procure  no  relief,  nor  shelter — but  abso- 

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lutely  perished  with  sickness  and  hunger.  On  the  Lancaster 
road,  a  similar  instance  occurred.  There  have  been  very 
many  instances,  in  which  as  soon  as  a  person  was  seized  with 
the  fever,  he  was  immediately  abandoned  by  friends  and 
relations,  and  resigned  to  the  care  of  perhaps  a  single  negro. 
This  has  been  the  case  of  persons  of  great  affluence.  And 
there  are  not  wanting  cases  of  persons  so  totally  deserted, 
as  to  be  without  a  human  being  to  hand  them  a  drink  of  water. 
Parents  have  deserted  their  children — children  their  parents 
— husbands  their  wives — and  wives  their  husbands.  It  is 
probably  not  exaggeration  to  suppose  that  a  fourth  or  a 
fifth  of  the  whole  of  the  persons  who  have  died,  have  been 
sacrificed  through  the  consternation  of  those  who  ought  to 
have  taken  care  of  them.  Since  the  early  terrors  have  been 
dispelled,  these  desertions  have  become  rare. 

Unfortunately  we  have  had,  for  a  continuance  of  time,  a 
series  of  weather  uncommonly  favourable  to  this  disorder. 
For  above  two  months  we  have  hardly  had  any  rain;  and 
during  that  time,  there  have  not  been  above  ten  or  tw^elve 
cool  days.  It  is  worthy  of  particular  attention,  that  the 
degree  of  mortality  has  depended  greatly  on  the  degree  of 
heat.  On  very  sultry  days,  the  number  of  deaths  has  been 
much  greater  than  on  cool  days.  A  fall  of  rain  last  night, 
accompanied  with  cold  weather,  which  continues  this  day, 
has  made  a  most  flattering  change  in  the  prospects  of  this 
city.  The  discordant  opinions  and  practices  of  the  gentlemen 
of  the  faculty  have  been  a  great  means  of  distroying  the 
confidence  of  the  public  in  their  prescriptions.  Dr.  Kush 
and  some  other  Physicians,  have  strongly  advised  bleeding, 
and  purges  of  calomel  and  jalap.  They  have  been  very  suc- 
cessful.     Others  have  rested  their  hopes  principally  on  the 

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cold  bath,  bark,  generous  living,  and  a  few  occasional  glasses 
of  old  jMadeira. 

Monday,  January  14,  i 755.— Stated  Lodge  Night. 
Present  11  members  and  8  Visitors.  Bro  Laney  & 
Gamble  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft.  Petitions  from 
John  Kelly  and  David  McCullough,  Bro  Praise  Wad- 
man  who  withdrew  was  again  admitted. 

Monday,  February  11,  1755.— Bro.  O'Hara's  affair 
was  postponed  until  next  Lodge  Night.  Present 
15  members  and  17  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M. 
Jonathan  B.  Smith.  Jno  Kelly  &  David  McCullough 
approved  &  initated.      Petition  from  John  Justice. 

March  11,  1755.- Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  18 
members  and  10  Visitors.  Petitions  from  Henry 
Myers,  John  Dufifield  and  Thomas  Coffee— John 
Justice  approved  and  initiated.  Bro  McCullough  & 
Kelly  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft.  Petition  from  Bro 
Rich'*  Hicks 

April  8,  1755.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  13 
members  and  7  Visitors.  Bro's  McCullough,  Laney 
&  Kelly  advanced  to  M.  M.  Petitions  were  received 
from  Thomas  Brown  and  Benjamin  Cowan. 

May  13,  1755.- Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  13 
Members  and  18  Visitors  viz:— R.  W.  G.  M.  Jonathan 
B.  Smith. 

Bro.  John  McClellan  No  3 
"      Jacob  Cozens  No  52 
"      Caldwallader  Griffith  No  52 
"     Wm.  Lea 

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Bro.  S.  Brooks  No  52 

"  S  Paueoast  No  51 

"  Wm  Lawrence  No  3 

"  Rich  Babe  No  3 

"  W^  King  No  3 

"  Hugh  McBride  No  22  Ireland 

"  David  Thompson  No  336  Ireland 

"  Arch.  McDugan  No  688  Ireland 

"  Robert  Farrell  No  468  Ireland 

"  Matthews  No  673  Ireland 

"  John  Anderson  No  350  Ireland 

"  Jas.  McElroy  No  595  Ireland 

"  Omen  Moran  No  202  Ireland 

''The  Secretary  laid  before  the  Lodge  the  papers 
by  him  prepared  for  the  Grand  Lodge,  being  a  Copy 
of  our  Bye  Laws  also  a  list  of  our  Members,  Initia- 
tions, Admissions  &c  up  to  St  John's  Day  last  and  an 
Account  of  the  Lodge  dues,  due  from  the  Lodge  to 
the  Grand  Lodge  up  to  the  same  period.  Copies  of 
which  said  List  &  Account  here  follow.  Which  hav- 
ing been  approved  of  the  Seal  of  the  Lodge  having 
been  affixed  unto  them,  the  Worshipful  Master  signed 
the  same  and  they  were  attested  by  the  Secretary, 
an  order  was  then  drawn  on  the  Treasurer  for  the 
sum  of  Fifteen  Pounds  One  Shilling  and  Eight  Pence 
in  favor  of  the  Grand  Treasurer  being  for  the  amount 
of  said  account  of  Lodge  dues,  Bro's  Joshua  Z  Cozens 
and  Joseph  Gamble  advanced  to  Master  Mason. 
Kich*^  Hicks  withdrew  his  Petition.  A  Motion  was 
made  that  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  confer  with 
Committees  from  the  other  Lodges  on  the  subject  of 
appointing   an   additional   Tyler  for   the   purpose   of 

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attending  this  Lodge  Room.  The  W.  Master  &  S. 
Warden  were  appointed  a  Committee  for  that  pur- 
pose." 

[On  the  6th  day  of  June  1793  Brother  John  Kelly 
gave  his  note  of  hand  of  that  date  in  which  Bro 
Edward  Farone  was  joined  in  favor  of  the  Worshipful 
Master  for  Eleven  Dollars  payable  six  months  after 
date,  it  being  the  amount  of  his  Lodge  Dues  and  he 
thereupon  received  a  recommendation  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  to  obtain  a  Grand  Lodge  Certificate.] 

June  10,  :Z755.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  11 
members  &  13  Visitors.  Thos  Coffee  approved  & 
initiated.  Brothers  Samuel  Jervis  and  John  Morris 
are  appointed  a  Committee  to  meet  the  Committee 
appointed  by  the  Grand  Lodge  for  the  purpose  of 
taking  care  of  the  Lodge  Room  and  in  conjunction 
with  committees  from  the  other  Lodges  appoint  a 
Tyler  or  Tylers  to  attend  the  different  Lodges  and 
in  case  of  neglect  or  misconduct  by  the  Tyler  at  any 
time  to  remove  him  and  appoint  another  in  his  stead, 
and  to  make  their  report  at  the  next  Lodge  night. 

An  Order  was  drawn  on  the  Treasurer  for  Twelve 
Dollars  in  favor  of  Bro  Samuel  Brooks  for  amount 
of  his  account  for  making  a  Seal  for  this  Lodge. 

Bro  Joseph  Gamble  &  Joshua  Z  Cozens  received 
Grand  Lodge  Certificates  and  withdrew. 

July  8,  i755.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  13 
Members   and  8  Visitors.      Henry  Myers   approved. 

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"On  motion  it  was  recommended  that  the  W  M  make 
application  to  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  to  be  informed 
whether  amongst  the  French  Refugees  lately  arrived 
and  those  expected  to  arrive  here  there  be  any  person 
in  distress  more  especially  Masons  who  may  stand 
in  need  of  assistance."  Henry  Myers  initiated.— 
Thos  Brown  withdraws  Petition. 

Philada  July  9"  1793. 
Grand  Lodge 

To  Fred'=  Miller 

To  cleaning  &  Skrubing  & £  1 — 10 — 0 

2  Quart  Spirits  to  Whitewasher  &  Woman . . .     0 —  3 — 9 

1  Doz  Lokers  for  Chandeliers 0 —  6 — 0 

4  Days  Attendance  at  the  L.  Room 1 —  0 — 0 

£  2—19—9 
Received  10*"  July  1793  of  Br  McCree  the  above  in  full 

Fred^  Miller, 

July  9,  i75>5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  6  Mem- 
bers. Bro  Coffee  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft  &  Master 
Mason.     Bro  Charles  Divine  proposed. 

August  12,  i 755.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
8  Members  and  11  Visitors.  Bro  Divine  withdraws 
Petition.  Applications  from  John  Martin  Joseph 
Whitehead,  John  Morton  and  John  Patton. 

"A  Motion  was  made  and  seconded,  That  whereas 
it  has  been  reported  that  John  O'Hara,  a  member  of 
this  Lodge  has  been  guilty  of  Theft,  viz  stealing  a 
watch  from  Joseph  Mansfield,  that  he  be  summoned 
as  heretofore  at  his  usual  place  of  abode  to  attend 
at  the  next  stated  Lodge  night  and  show  cause  why 
he  should  not  be  expelled  this  Lodge. ' ' 

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Thursday,  August  29,  i7'5>5.— Extra  Lodge.    Present 

6  Members  &  2  Visitors.  By  Dispensation  John 
Hammill  approved  &  initated  and  advanced  to  Fellow 
Craft. 

Friday,  August  30,  i755.— Extra  Lodge.      Present 

7  Members  &  8  Visitors.  Bro  John  Hammill  ad- 
vanced to  Master  Mason  &  withdrew,  Gr.  L.  Certf. 

September  9,  :Z755.— Present  8  Members  &  11  Visi- 
tors. Jno  Morton,  John  Patton  and  Joseph  White- 
head approved,  Jno  Patton  &  John  Morton  initated, 
Bro  Jno  Morton  paid  into  the  hands  of  the  W.  M. 
18|  Dolls  in  full  of  his  Fees  and  Bro  John  Patton  the 
like  sum  but  change  not  being  convenient  the  Lodge 
is  indebted  to  Captain  Patton  2/6*^. 

Saturday,  September  14,  i7P5.— Adjourned  Lodge. 
Present  7  Members  and  13  Visitors.  John  Martin 
initated,  Bro  Jno  Patton  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft 
&  Master  Mason. 

On  account  of  the  Yellow  Fever  raging  in  the  City 
of  Philadelphia  there  were  no  Lodges  held  in  the 
months  of  October  and  November. 

Monday,  December  9,  i755.— Stated  Lodge  Night. 
Present  9  Members  and  5  Visitors,  Rudman  Robinson 
approved  &  initated,  Bro  Riley  was  appointed  as 
Tyler  for  said  Lodge  No  2,  Pro.  Tem.  until  an  ap- 
pointment may  take  place  he  receiving  the  common 
Emolument.      Application   from   David   Irving. 

Monday,  December  16,  i755.— Extra  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 8  Members  &  12  Visitors.     Bro  John  Martin  and 

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R   Robinson   adv   to   Fellow    Craft.      Election   post- 
poned so  few  members  present. 

On  St.  John's  Day,  Friday,  December  27,  1793.— 
A  charity  sermon  was  preached  in  St.  Paul's  Church 
in  Philadelphia  by  Rev.  Samuel  Magaw,  D.D.,  before 
the  Grand  and  Subordinate  Lodges  for  the  purpose  of 
increasing  the  relief  fund.  There  is  a  well-founded 
tradition  that  President  Washington  was  present  upon 
this  occasion,  and  that  he  made  ample  contribution  to 
the  fund.  This  latter  fact  is  proven  by  the  following 
minute  in  the  Grand  Lodge  records: 

St.  John's  Day,  December  27,  1793. 
Grand  Lodge 

^^  Resolved,  that  Bro.  Proctor  and  Poor  be  requested  to 
wait  upon  His  Excellency,  Bro  George  Washington,  with 
the  Compliments  of  the  Day,  and  respectful  Thanks  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  for  his  generous  Donation  to  the  Poor." 

In  anticipation  of  above  celebration  the  following 
notice  appeared  in  the  papers  of  December  21,  1793. 

Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania 

Philadelphia,  December  18,  1793. 
On  next  St  John's  day,  Friday  the  27*^  instant,  the  Grand 
Lodge  will  attend  divine  service  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  where 
a  sermon  will  be  delivered,  at  their  request,  by  the  Rev.  D'". 
Magaw. 

The  officers  and  brethren  of  the  several  Lodges,  and  all 
sojourners  of  the  craft,  are  requested  to  join  in  the  solemnity 
which  has  for  its  more  immediate  object  the  alleviating  of 

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the  distresses  of  the  needy,  the  widow  and  the  orphan,  re- 
duced by  the  late  calamity  to  a  situation  calling  peculiarly 
for  the  ossistance  of  the  brethren 

By  order  of  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master, 

P.  Le  Barbeer  Du  Plessis,  Gr.  Sec'ry. 

N.  B. — The  Grand  Lodge,  deeply  impressed  with  a  sense 
of  the  calamity  to  which  their  brethren  and  fellow  citizens 
have  been  subjected,  have  unanimously  agreed  to  relinquish 
the  accustomed  feast  on  the  said  day. 

The  committee  appointed  to  arrange  and  superintend  the 
intended  procession  on  next  St.  John's  day,  inform  their 
brethren  who  may  incline  to  join  the  Grand  Lodge,  that  the 
doors  of  the  Grand  Lodge  room,  corner  of  Arch  and  fifth 
streets,  will  be  opened  at  9  o'clock,  and  the  Grand  Lodge  move 
at  10  precisely,  in  the  forenoon,  to  the  church. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  brethren  will  be  influenced  by  that 
spirit  of  unanimity  and  brotherly  love  which  characterize 
Masons,  to  be  punctual  in  their  attendance;  and  that  heaven 
born  charity,  which  pervades  and  adorns  the  human  heart, 
will  effectuate  the  purpose  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  by  procuring 
substantial  assistance  in  relieving  the  wants  of  the  needy, 
and  the  distress  of  the  mourning  widow,  and  the  unhappy 
situation  of  the  lonely  orphan,  many  of  which  description 
are  thrown  on  the  attention  of  the  Grand  Lodge  by  the  late 
unhappy  calamity  in  this  city. 

Tickets,  without  which  no  brother  shall  be  permitted  to 
join  in  the  procession,  may  be  had  of  either  of  the  subscribers. 

John  McElwee 
John  Poor 
Cadw'r  Griffith 
Thomas  Proctor 

December  21  1793 

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The  following  Masonic  prayer  was  made  by  Rev. 
Bro.  Magaw,  before  the  sermon: 

0  thou  who  sittest  between  the  Cherubims!  eternal  in  excellency! 
and  builder  of  all  worlds !  Wisdom,  strength  and  beauty  dwell  with 
thee !  Thy  Being  we  adore !  thy  works  we  view  with  wonder ! 
and  in  the  midst  of  these,  the  pillars  of  thy  temple,  we  trace  the 
stately  footsteps  of  the  Great  I  Am  ! — May  the  proportion,  order 
and  arrangement,  there  so  brightly  visible,  convey  an  assimilating 
influence  to  the  temple  of  human  minds ! 

Center  of  Happiness !  from  whom  we  have  turned  away — "  Raise 
up,  we  pray  thee,  thy  power,  and  come  among  us."  Renew  that 
sweet  attraction,  by  which  we  shall  again  come  near  to  thee;  and 
live,  and  move,  and  duly  act,  in  the  honorable  places  thou  didst 
assign  us  from  the  beginning. 

Source  of  Light!  destroy  the  covering  of  darkness  cast  over  so 
many  faces!  Send  thy  purifying  radiance,  that  we  may  be  light 
in  thee!  By  the  leading  of  thy  truth,  as  by  the  kindly  star  in 
yonder  EAST,  manifest  the  Everlasting  WORD !  Shew  us  the 
brightness  of  the  Father's  glory. 

God  of  Love!  who  hast  made  it  divinely  known,  that  all  our 
doings,  without  charity,  are  nothing  worth,  pour  into  our  hearts 
that  most  perfect  gift,  the  very  bond  of  purified  communications, 
and  of  all  the  virtues!  Impart  to  us  the  spirit  that  should  endue; 
the  graces  that  should  adorn;  the  skill  that  should  accomplish 
workmen  who  need  not  be  ashamed — Give  the  generous  wish — the 
feeling  heart;  and,  when  there  is  opportunity,  the  liberal  hand! 

Father  of  All!  who  are  no  respecter  of  persons — ere  long,  may 
every  kindred  and  people,  from  the  east  and  from  the  west,  from 
the  north  and  from  the  south,  see  thy  great  salvation !  and  be  asso- 
ciated into  one  brotherhood — and  their  symbol,  and  their  name,  be 
one!  Reveal  over  the  whole  earth,  the  mysteiy  hid  from  ages — 
the  decree  of  deliverance  through  SHILOH,  who  is  come ! 

Bountiful  Sovereign!  bestow  furtherance  and  blessing  upon 
all  who  breathe  benevolence,  and  strive  to  dwell  together  in  unity! 
Refresh  them  as  with  the  dew  of  Hermon!  Enrich  them  as  with 
the  gold  of  Ophir!  Put  on  them  beautiful  garments!  and  let  them 
be  all-glorious  within! 

Infinite  of  Goodness !  Friend  of  Man !  Countenance,  in  partic- 
ular, thy  servants  here  present  on  this  occasion — persons  of  various 
orders,  and  several  denominations;  yet  declaring  to  consent  in  this 
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one  business — to  love  one  another,  and  to  do  extensive  offices  of 
kindness.  Preserve  unbroken,  this  ancient  bond!  Brighten  this 
chain  of  venerable  friendship !  Keep  them  from  the  evil  that 
is  in  the  world !  Suffer  them  not  to  touch  an  unhallowed  thing, 
nor  confusion  to  mar  their  work!  "May  all  the  building,  fitly 
framed  together,  grow  unto  an  holy  temple  in  the  Lord." 

Send  them,  this  day,  with  their  companions  numerous  and  true, 
as  favorable  angels,  to  soften  the  distress  of  thy  poor;  to  reach 
some  clothing  to  the  shivering  naked;  to  deal  their  bread  to  the 
hungry;  to  comfort  the  destitute,  the  languishing ,  and  the  sorrowful; 
to  save  from  perishing! 

As  long  as  there  is  one  afflicted  traveler  in  the  world's  wilderness, 
let  there  not  be  wanting  many  of  these  good  Samaritans! 

And  now  while  we  thank  thee,  0  liberal  Bestower  of  favors !  that 
the  voice  of  gladness  and  health  is  restored  to  so  many  of  our 
dwellings,  we  ask  these  further  gifts  to  crown  our  happiness.  The 
tenderest  feeling  of  our  neighbor's  woe;  the  grace  and  generosity 
to  share  in  others'  sorrows,  as  well  as  joys;  the  will  and  the  ability 
to  show  we  love  as  brethren ! 

That,  as  shrines  in  some  venerable  sanctuary,  every  association 
among  them  may  be  holiness  unto  the  Lord :  that  these  states  may 
prosper,  and  all  the  people  praise  thee — be  pleased,  thou  Lover  of 
Concord!  to  continue  our  National  Confederacy:  May  its  glory 
still  appear:  and  the  goodly  fellowship  pass  along  with  increasing 
character  of  Millions  yet  unborn. 

May  all  that  can  make  great  and  free,  and  happy,  distinguish 
the  land  we  live  in !  Let  it  be  blessed  of  the  Most  High,  for  the 
precious  things  of  the  earth,  and  fulness  thereof !  Let  our  men  be 
few,  nor  unaeeeptible  to  their  brethren !  May  our  sons  grow  up 
as  the  young  plants,  and  our  daughters  be  as  the  polished  corners  of 
the  Temple ! — 

May  the  lamp  of  Science  burn  clear  in  these  climes  of  freedom; 
and  our  Golden  Candlesticks  never  be  removed!  May  wisdom  com- 
petent to  every  exigence,  and  fortitude  superior  to  danger.  May 
incorruptible  fidelity  and  care  to  execute  the  trust  committed  to 
them  inspire  our  Civil  Rulers,  and  all  the  Representatives  of  the 
people — 

Finally — That  we  may  remain  the  objects  of  thy  loving  kindness 
— a  People  whom  the  Lord  Jehovah  will  defend  and  prosper;  and 
whose  posterity  he  will  be   in  the  midst  of  foi'ever.      May  pure 

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Religion  and  such  unblemished  manners  as  will  shed  a  dignity  on 
our  Christian  calling,  prevail  among  us ! — 

And  may  the  glory  of  the  latter  House  be  greater  than  the 
former;  and  in  this  place  may  the  Lord  of  Hosts  give  harmony  and 
peace. — As  long  as  the  Sun  and  Moon  shall  endure,  through  our 
only  mediator  and  advocate  Christ  Jesus — 

Monday,  January  13,  i754.— Stated  Lodge  Night. 
Present  10  Members  and  3  Visitors.  David  Irving 
approved  &  initiated  Applications  of  Richard 
Morthwaite  and  John  Pierce  &  Bro  Felix  McCarty 
Rudman  Robinson  advanced  to  M  M. 

February  10,  i7P4.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
13  Members  and  9  Visitors.  Jos  Pierce  approved  and 
initated  Bro  Irvin  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft.  Bro 
J  Martin  advanced  to  Master  Mason.  Bro  Thos 
Coffee  withdrew. 

March  10,  :Z7P4.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  8 
Members  &  13  Visitors.  Rich^  Morthwaite  withdrew 
his  Petition.  Bro  Felix  McCarty  approved.  Bro 
J  Pierce  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft. 

March  17,  i7M.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  11  Mem- 
bers and  9  Visitors.  Applications  from  John  Steel 
and  Andrew  B  Bankson.  Bro  Irvin  &  Pierce  ad- 
vanced to  Master  Mason. 

April  14,  i754.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  9 
Members  and  17  Visitors.  Petition  from  John  Steel 
and  Andrew  B.  Bankson  A  motion  was  made  by  the 
W.  M.  and  seconded  that  special  notice  be  given  to 
Brother  Gr.  A.  Baker,  Secretary  of  this  Lodge  re- 
questing to  know  whether  he  intends  any  longer  to  act 

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Things  Lovely  and  of  good  Repoth 

A    SERMON, 

DE1IV£K£D        IH 

St.  Paulas  Church,  Philadelphia. 

On  the  27tb  of  D£C£mbzk«  1793  : 

BEING 

St.  John  the  Evangelist's  Day; 

IN    THE    PRESENCE    OT 

The(gram»  Hotiige  of  ^mnfplloairfR 

TO    WHICH    IS    P&EFIxiD 

A  Prayer,  before  the  Sermon. 

Publijhcd  at  their  Reguefi, 

By  feamuel  iHagato,  D.  D. 


Printed  by  €,  (j^gtoalU,  No.  i$6.  Market- 

Street,  South,  between  Fourth  &  Fif  th-SttcctS. 
M,DCC,XCIV. 

Title  Page  of  Eev.  Bro.  Magaw's  Charity  Sermon.  196 


ITbe  Close  ot  tbe  jetgbteentb  CenturiP 


To 
lai      FAETICULAB.! 

And  to  the  Communications  of  the 

Ancient  Masonic  Order, 

The  Officers,  Brethren,  Sojourners, 

Fellow  Labourers,  and 

Builders, 

In    the    Temple   which    is    called 

Beautiful, 

WHEBEVBB.     THEY      ARE, 

Who,  from  Choice,  or  Chance^ 
May  meet  with  this  Difcourfe, — 

It  is  Infcribed, 

With  Sentiments  of  high  Refpe(5t, 
By  their  affedionate, 

^d  moft  obedient  Servant, 

S^n&    %y€athor. 

Dedication  of  Eev.  Bko.  Macaw's  Chakity  Sermon, December  27, 1793. 


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in  that  capacity  and  if  he  does  requesting  him  to 
bring  up  the  accounts  of  the  Lodge.— The  W.  M 
undertook  to  perform  the  business. 

May  12,  i7M.— Present  12  Members  and  18  Visi- 
tors. Petition  from  John  Smith  and  John  Brock, 
Christian  Hubbard  and  Robert  McFee  approved. 
Petition  from  Nathan  Jervis.  Geo  A  Baker  resigned 
as  Secretary.  John  Steel  and  Andrew  B  Bankson 
approved.  John  Steel,  Christian  Hubbard  and 
Robert  McFee  initiated. 

May  19,  :Z7P4.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  11 
Members  and  10  Visitors.  John  Brock  initated  and 
advanced  to  Fellow  Craft.  Christian  Hubbard  ad- 
vanced to  Fellow  Craft.  ''The  W  M  made  a  motion 
that  in  future  all  members  as  well  as  visiting  brethren 
should  pay  into  the  hands  of  the  Secretary  when  they 
first  enter  the  room  one  quarter  of  a  dollar  unless 
the  first  time  of  visiting." 

June  9,  i754.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  13 
Members  and  15  Visitors.  Petition  from  Thomas  F 
Lawler  and  Samuel  Lees.  Bro  R  McFee  and  Bro 
Jno  Steel  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft.  A.  B.  Bankson 
initiated.     Nathan  Jervis  approved. 

June  16,  1794.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  12 
Members  and  6  Visitors.  Nathan  Jarvis  initiated 
Bro  C.  Hubbard  advanced  to  Master  Mason. 

June  23,  1754.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  20 
members  and  9  Visitors.     Bro  R  McFee  advanced  to 

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Master  Mason.  Following  Brethren  were  then 
Elected  to  serve  until  St.  John's  Day  next:— Bro  J 
Bankson  W.  M.  Praise  Wadman  S.  W.  R  Robeson 
J.  W.  Bro  Richard  Hunt  Treas""  &  A.  B.  Bankson 
Sect'y,  John  Riley  S  D.  &  D  Irvin  J  D.  Bro  John 
Anderson  approved. 

July  14,  i75>4.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  16 
Members  and  4  Visitors.  S.  W.  and  J.  W.  installed 
in  the  presence  of  four  Past  Masters  of  different 
Lodges.  Samuel  Lees  approved.  Petition  received 
from  William  Harrison  and  John  R  Taylor.  A.  B. 
Bankson  advanced  to  Fellow  Craft.  It  was  moved 
and  agreed  to  unanimously  that  from  and  after  this 
night  every  Brother,  whether  a  member  of  the  Lodge 
or  a  visiting  member  shall  upon  his  entering  the 
Lodge  give  in  his  name  to  the  Secretary  and  pay  his 
dues  to  the  Treasurer  or  in  his  absence  to  the 
Secretary. 

July  21,  i754.— Adjourned  Lodge  Night.  Present 
15  Members  and  10  Visitors,  It  was  moved  and 
agreed  that  all  Petitions  presented  to  the  Lodge  here- 
after shall  be  sealed."  Andrew  B  Bankson  adv*^  to 
Master  Mason.     Bro  Sam'  Lees  adv'^  to  Fellow  Craft. 

August  11,  :Z7P4.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
14  Members  and  6  Visitors.  John  R.  Taylor  ap- 
proved and  initiated.— Wm  Harrison  withdraws  his 
Petition. 

August  18,  i754.— Adjourned  Lodge  Night.      Pres- 

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ent  13  Members  and  8  Visitors.  Bro  S  Lees  adv'^  to 
Master  Mason     Bro  Taylor  adv^  to  Fellow  Craft. 

September  8,  i7P4.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
20  Members  &  5  Visitors.  Petition  from  Edward 
Riley  &  Hugh  Manning.  Moved  and  seconded  that 
1000  blank  notices  be  struck  off  and  that  the  Treas- 
urer be  directed  to  pay  for  same.  Bro  J  Steel  adv*^ 
to  Master  Mason.  Bro  J  R  Taylor  adv^  to  Master 
Mason.  Bro  McCullough  applies  for  Grand  Lodge 
Certificate.  A  petition  from  Thomas  Morgan  pray- 
ing assistance  was  read  but  his  character  not  appear- 
ing respectable  it  was  ordered  withdrawn. 

October  13,  i754.— Present  10  Members  &  5  Visitors. 
Petition  from  Rufus  Green. 

November  10,  i754.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
11  Members  and  8  Visitors.  R  Green  approved  and 
initiated,  and  adv^  to  Fellow  Craft. 

December  8,  i754.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
11  Members  and  8  Visitors.  Election  of  officers,— 
Jacob  Bankson  W  M  Rudman  Robeson  S.  W.  and 
David  Irving  J.  W.  and  installed.  "  The  Installation 
of  the  other  Officers  being  postponed  on  account  of 
the  multiplicity  of  business"  John  Huston  approved, 
John  Riley  approved,  Wm  Bell  Petition  then  applied 
to  No  59  he  was  declared  unworthy  to  become  a 
member  of  Lodge  No  2,  John  Huston  and  John  Riley 
initiated.  Relief  granted  to  Achmet  Ben  Ali,  a 
Master  Mason  from  Algiers. 

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January  19,  i7P5.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
9  Members  and  2  Visitors.  Petition  from  Bro  James 
Shaw.  John  Huston  and  John  Riley  adv^  to  Fellow 
Craft.     John  Wheelan  chosen  Tyler. 

Friday,  January  23,  i 755.— Standing  Committe 
of  Lodge  No  2  Met  according  to  the  order  of  said 
Lodge  at  the  House  of  David  Irving  in  Dock  Street- 
Present  Bros  Wadman— Irving- Service  The  W.  M, 
Sec'y  and  Books  not  being  present— adjourned  to 
Saturday  24^^  1795.  At  this  meeting  John  Wheelan 
was  chosen  Tyler.  As  neither  Master  or  Sec'y  were 
present  Committe  adjourned  until  the  next  Day 

Sunday,  January  25,  i 755.— Committe  met  accord- 
ing to  adjournment  present  Jacob  Bankson  W.  M. 
Rudman  Robeson  S.  W.— David  Irving  J.  W.  Praise 
Wadman  Treas.  The  Sec'y  not  being  present  nor 
the  books  produced  no  investigation  could  be  had, 
but  ordered  and  agreed  upon,  that  the  sitting  Com- 
mitte of  Lodge  No  2  meet  at  the  house  of  Bro  David 
Erwing  on  Saturday  Evening  next  at  6  O'clock  and 
that  the  secretary  be  directed  to  make  a  full  state- 
ment of  the  accounts,  and  to  bring  forward  the  Books 
of  the  Lodge  in  order  that  what  is  proper  may  be 
done. 

A  Statement  of  the  conduct  of  Lodge  No.  59  with 
respect  to  the  supposed  improper  admittance  of  Wil- 
liam Bell,  was  read  and  directed  to  be  transcribed  and 
shewn  to  the  Grand  Lodge  on  To  morrow  at  2  o 'Clock, 

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the  stated  time  of  their  meeting.— The  Committee 
recommend  that  Brother  John  Service  employ  a 
person  upon  the  most  moderate  Terms  for  the  use 
of  the  Lodge  to  procure  the  following  Jewells,  to  wit, 
A  Passt  Masters  Jewell,  a  Masters,  Senior  Wardens, 
Junior  Wardens,  Senior  Deacon,  Junior  Deacon, 
Secretary,  Treasurer,  and  one  Square  which  shall 
be  marked  No  2— And  an  Order  drawn  by  him  upon 
the  Master  for  Payment  of  the  same,  and  that  it  be 
requested  of  Brother  Service  to  endeavour  to  procure 
the  same,  at  or  before  the  next  Stated  Lodge  Night, 
which  will  be  on  the  Second  Monday  in  next  Month.— 
Closed  the  Adjournment  to  Saturday  next  at  6  o 'Clock 
and  finished  the  business  in  Harmony  at  9  o 'Clock. 

Saturday,  January  31,  i7P5.— The  Committee  met 
according  to  Adjournment.     Present 

Bros.  Jacob  Bankson,  W.  M. 
**       David  Erwing  J.  W. 
"       Praise  Wadman,  Treasurer 
"       Andrew  B.  Bankson,  Sec'y. 

As  neither  the  S.  W.  nor  either  of  the  Deacons, 
attended  &  as  the  Worshipful  Masters  private  busi- 
ness rendered  his  stay  impossible  the  Members  of  the 
Committee  who  were  present  thought  it  most  proper 
to  adjourn  until  Monday  Evening  next  the  2""^.  of 
Febr^.  at  6  o 'Clock  without  entering  into  any  partic- 
ular business. 

Monday,  February  2,  i7P5.— The   Committee   met 

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according  to  adjournment.— Present:  Bro""  David 
Erwing,  J.  W. ;  Praise  Wadman,  Treasurer;  John 
Service.  The  members  present  thought  it  not  prudent 
to  go  into  business  and  therefore  adjourned  until 
Wednesday  the  4"^  inst.  at  6  o 'Clock  P.  M.  and  Notice 
is  to  be  sent  to  the  absentees. 

Wednesday,  February  4,  1795.— The  Committee  met 
according  to  adjournment.  Present:  Bro'■^  Rudman 
Robeson,  S.  W. ;  David  Erwing,  J.  W. ;  Praise  Wad- 
man,  Treasurer.  They  not  being  sufficient  to  do 
business,  and  being  so  often  disappointed;  thought 
proper  to  dissolve,  and  are  now  ready  to  make  Report. 

N.  B.— The  Committee  offered  Five  Dollars  to 
Brother  Achmet  Ben  Ali,  in  pursuance  to  the  Order 
of  the  Lodge  which  Sum  was  refused  by  him,  as  being 
to  inconsiderable. 

Part  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  Lodge  No  2 
beg  leave  to  Report,  that  after  having  several  differ- 
ent Meetings,  they  have  not  been  able  to  do  the  ma- 
terial part  of  the  business  entrusted  to  them,  owing 
to  the  absence  of  the  Worshipful  Master  and  Secre- 
tary. They  therefore  only  suggest  to  the  Lodge, 
that  as  the  business  is  of  the  highest  importance  to 
the  Welfare,  and  even  to  the  existence  of  the  Lodge, 
it  is  essentially  necessary  that  some  speedy  and 
effectual  mode  should  be  adopted  by  which  the 
settlement  of  that  business  might  be  completed. 
(Signed)  Rudem^  Robeson  S.  W. 
DAvro   Irving   J.   W. 

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February  9,  1795.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
9  Members  and  5  Visitors  including  Achmet  Ben  Ali. 
Petitions  from  John  Brown,  Bro  John  Boyd,  formerly 
a  Master  Mason  of  Lodge  No  4  which  lost  its  War- 
rant.    Bro  John  Huston  adv*^  to  Master  Mason. 

February  16,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
9  Members  and  8  Visitors.  Petition  from  Henry 
Wister,  Bro  Jno  Riley  adv^  to  Master  Mason. 

March  9,  1795.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  15 
Members  &  3  Visitors.  Jno  Brown  approved  and 
initiated     Fee  $18.— 

Friday,  March  20,  1755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 10  members  and  7  Visitors.  Bro  John  Boyd 
apprv^  and  Henry  Wistar  apprv"^  and  initiated.  A 
sett  of  Jewels  were  delivered  by  Bro.  Ser\T.ce  to  Lodge 
at  cost  of  £  19—11—7^.  It  was  ordered  that  aprons 
be  made  for  the  Lodge  with  Characters  and  Emblems 
according  to  the  officers  rank  and  dignity. 

April  13,  1795.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  15 
members  and  6  Visitors.  Petitions  from  John  Kean 
and  Thomas  Cash,  Levi  Jordan  &  Dennis  McLaughlin 
Augustine  Jones  a  Fellow  Craft  of  No  4  approved, 
Henry  Wistar  adv'^  to  Fellow  Craft.  John  Brown 
adv^  to  Master  Mason. 

April  15,  1795.— Adjourned  Lodge  3  O'clock  P  M 
Bro  Henry  Wistar  and  Augustine  Jones  adv*^  to  Mas- 
ter Mason  and  ajDplied  for  Grand  Lodge  Certificate. 
Lodge  closed  at  6  0 'Clock. 

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May  11,  i755.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  19 
members  and  21  Visitors.  Petition  from  Joseph 
Mansfield.  Jonathan  Butler,  Gordon  McNeill  «&  Miles 
Rourke  Bro  John  Kean,  &  Thos  Cash  approved  and 
initiated. 

Saturday,  May  16,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 11  members  and  17  Visitors.  Petition  from 
Abraham  Morrow,  Dennis  McLaughlin  approved  and 
initiated. 

June  8,  i7P5.— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present  21 
members  &  3  Visitors.  Election— Jacob  Bankson 
W.  M.  David  Irwin  S.  W.  Robert  McFee  J.  W. 
Praise  Wadman  Treas""  Dennis  McLaughlin  Secty. 
Felix  McCarty  S.  D.  &  Jno  Service.  J.  D.  Petitions 
from  Michael  Wistar  &  Chas  McManemy.  A  Morrow 
&  J  Mansfield  apprv^.     A.  Morrow  initiated. 

Tuesday,  June  9,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge  (9 
A.  M).  Present  8  Members  Joseph  Mansfield  initi- 
ated, Bro  Cash  and  McLaughlin  adv*^  to  Fellow  Craft. 
Bro  McLaughlin  adv^  to  Master  Mason. 

Monday,  June  15,  17P5.— Adjourned  Lodge  9  A.  M. 
Present  9  Members  «&  3  Visitors.  Petition  from 
Edward  Robinson  &  John  Baxter.  Miles  Rourke 
approved  and  initiated.  ''Brothers  Bankson  and 
Service  have  procured  2  Doz  skins  for  aprons  and 
Bro  Service  is  appointed  to  have  them  trimm'd  with 
Blue  Ribbon  on  or  before  St  John's  Day"  Bro  Abm 
Morrow  adv^  to  Fellow  Craft.     ''Bros  McCarthy  and 

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Wistar  are  appointed  to  wait  on  Bro  Cash  to  give 
directions  to  provide  a  Dinner  for  at  least  18  members 
of  Lodge  No  2  on  St  Johns  Day  next" 

Monday,  June  22,  i7P5.— Extra  Lodge.  Present 
11  members  and  1  Visitor.  Bro  Cash  A  Morrow 
adv*^  to  Master  Mason.  Bro  Miles  Eourke  adv*^  to 
Fellow  Craft. 

St.  John  the  Baptist's  Day,  June  24,  1795,  was  cele- 
brated, with  a  procession,  a  religious  service  at  old 
St.  Peter's  Church,  Third  and  Pine  Streets,  with  a 
sermon  by  Eev.  Dr.  William  Smith.  This  was  the 
last  Masonic  sermon  preached  by  that  venerable 
theologian  and  Freemason. 

After  the  return  to  the  Hall  at  the  conclusion  of 
the  service  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

On  motion  and  seconded,  Resolved,  That  the  Committee  of 
Arrangements  be  requested  to  wait  on  Bro.  Dr.  Smith  with  the 
thanks  of  this  Lodge  for  the  discourse  by  him  delivered  on 
this  day,  and  request  the  favor  of  a  copy  of  the  same  for 
publication,  and  that  one  thousand  copies  thereof  be  printed 
at  the  expense  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

There  is  no  record,  however,  that  this  resolution 
was  ever  carried  into  effect.  The  sermon  is  included 
in  the  works  of  Wm.  Smith,  D.D.,  Vol.  n.,  p.  73, 
published  in  Philadelphia,  1803,  a  copy  of  which  is 
in  the  Grand  Lodge  Library. 

The  following  advertisement  and  account  of  the 
Celebration   of   St.    John   the   Evangelist's    Day   ap- 

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peared    in    Poulson's    American    Daily    Advertiser, 
June  24,  1795: 

Grand  Lodge  op  Pennsylvania,  St.  John's  Day. 

The  officers  and  brethren  of  the  different  Lodges  under 
the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  of  Pennsylvania,  are  re- 
quested to  meet  at  the  Lodge  Eoom,  corner  of  Arch  and 
Fifth  Streets,  on  St.  John's  Day  the  24th  inst.  precisely 
at  8  o'clock  in  the  morning.  After  the  business  which  will 
then  be  communicated  shall  be  done,  a  procession  will  be 
formed,  to  proceed  from  thence  to  St.  Peter's  Church,  where 
a  discourse,  suitable  to  the  occasion,  will  be  delivered  by  our 
Rev.  Brother  Dr.  Smith. 

By  order  of  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master. 

Thomas  Armstrong,  Grand  Sec. 

June  16,  1795. 

Philadelphia,  June  24,  Order  of  Procession. 

On  Saint  John's  Day,  June  24,  1795,  as  laid  down  by  the 
Committee  of  Arangements  appointed  by  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania — 

1.  Trumpeter. 

2.  Two  Tylers  with  drawn  Swords. 

3.  Entered  Apprentices,  two  and  two. 

4.  Twelve  Fellow  Crafts  with  White  wands  two  and  two. 

5.  The  rest  of  the  Fellows  Crafts  do. 

6.  Stewards  of  the  different  Lodges  do. 

7.  Master  Masons  of  the  different  Lodges  do. 

8.  Junior  Deacons  of  the  different  do  with  the  badges  of 

their  order. 

9.  Senior  Deacons  do  do. 

10.  Junior  Wardens  do  do. 

11.  Senior  Wardens  do  do. 

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12.  Treasurers  of  the  different  Lodges  do. 

13.  Secretaries  of  do  do. 

14.  Present  Masters  of  Lodges. 

15.  Past  Masters  of  the  do. 

16.  Band  of  Music. 

17.  Grand  Persuivant  with  drawn  Sword. 

18.  Two  Grand  Sword  bearers  do. 

19.  Two  Grand  Stewards. 

20.  Grand  Deacons  with  the  badges  of  the  order. 

21.  Corinthian  order. 

22.  Bible  Square  and  Compass  with  Cushion. 

23.  The  Dorick  and  lonick  orders. 

24.  Grand  Chaplain  and  Past  Grand  Chaplain. 

25.  Two  Grand  Secretaries  with  the  Book  of  Constitution  and 

Warrant  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

26.  Past  Grand  Secretaries. 

27.  Grand  Treasurer. 

28.  Past  Grand  Treasurer. 

29.  Grand  Wardens  with  CoUumns. 

30.  Past  Grand  Wardens. 

31.  Grand  Master  and  Deputy. 

32.  Past  Grand  Masters  and  Deputies. 

To  proceed  from  the  Lodge  Room  (at  the  Corner  of  Arch 
and  Fifth  Streets)  at  eight  o'clock  this  morning  to  St.  Peter's 
Church,  where  Divine  Service  will  be  performed. 

Monday,  July  13,  i7P5.— Extra  Lodge  (10  A.  M) 
Present  7  members  and  1  Visitor.     Officers  installed. 

July  13,  i7P5.— Stated  Lodge  (7  p.  m.)  Present 
16  members  &  7  Visitors  Edward  Eobinson  and 
John  Baxter  approved  also  Michael  Wistar  &  Charles 
McManemy  &  Levi  Jordan.     Gordon  McNeil  rejected. 

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Petition  from  Samuel  Cowperthwait,  William  Dunton, 
John  Cloer  and  John  Patterson.  Edward  Robinson, 
John  Baxter,  Michael  Wistar,  Charles  McManemy 
and  Levi  Jordan  initiated. 

August  10,  1755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers and  10  Visitors.  Samuel  Cowperthwait,  John 
Cloer  and  John  Patterson  approved  and  initiated 
Petitions  from  Oliver  Rhea  Christian  Sweitzer, 
Joshua  Buffington,  Joseph  Burden,  Michael  Murphy, 
Joshua  Mitchell,  John  Kessler  and  Timothy  0  Brien. 
Lodge  adjourned  to  Monday  Aug  17. 

Monday,  August  17,  i7i'5.— Present  15  members  and 
9  Visitors.  Bro'  M  Wister  Edw^  Robinson,  Chas 
McManemy  &  Jno  Patterson  adv^  to  Fellow  Craft 
and  M.  Wistar  about  going  to  sea  was  adv^  to  Master 
Mason. 

August  24,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  17 
members  &  15  Visitors.  Bro  Jno  Baxter  &  John 
Cloer  adv*^  to  Fellow  Craft.  Miles  Rourke  adv*^  to 
Master  Mason. 

September  lA,  i7P5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23 
members  and  14  Visitors,  Petitions  from  John  Barry, 
Mark  Cowperthwaithe,  Naphthali  Campbell  Samuel 
Mitchell  and  Lawrence  Justice.  Approved  Christian 
Sweitzer,  Joshua  Buffington  and  John  Kessler.  Initi- 
ated C.  Sweitzer  and  Jno  Kessler.  Rejected  Oliver 
Rhea. 

September   21,   1755.— Extra   Lodge.      Present   18 

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members  and  4  Visitors.  Initiated  J.  Buffington. 
M.  M.  John  Baxter  &  Jno  Cloer. 

October  12,  i755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers &  25  Visitors.  T.  0,  Brian  withdraws  his  Peti- 
tion. Thos  Vantenbergh  Petition.  Approved  and 
Initiated  Joseph  Burden,  Jon  Barry,  Michael  Murphy, 
Samuel  Mitchell  &  Lawrence  Justice. 

October  19,  i7P5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  20 
members  &  10  Visitors.  N  Campbell  &  Joshua  Mit- 
chell approv*^  &  initiated,  Jno  Steel  Resigned.  Lodge 
adjourned  in  Harmony  at  10  0 'Clock  to  meet  again 
on  Monday  next  at  6  Oclock. 

October  26,  i795.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  16 
members  and  9  Visitors.  Bro  J  Mansfield,  C 
Sweitzer  J.  Buffington  and  John  Kessler  adv*^  to  Fel- 
low Craft. 

An  Account  was  transmitted  by  a  Committee  from 
the  Grand  Lodge,  respecting  the  Rent  and  Fire  Wood 
of  the  Lodge  Room,  the  consideration  whereof  was 
postponed  until  the  next  Stated  Lodge  Night. 

November  9,  1755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  29 
members  and  17  Visitors.  Petition  from  David 
Sayres.  Thos  Vantenbergh  apprv^  &  initiated.  Mark 
Cowperthwaithe  approved.  J  Mansfield,  Edward 
Robinson  and  Jno  Patterson  adv*^  to  Master  Mason. 

The  Continued  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  Oliver 
Rhea  made  Report  that  he  was  the  Identical  Person 
respecting  whom  they  had  made  their  former  Report. 

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The  Representation  made  by  Brother  John  Kean 
against  Brother  John  Huston  was  taken  into  Con- 
sideration, and  after  having  heard  the  Report  of  the 
Committee  appointed  to  investigate  the  same  it  was 
unanimously  Agreed  That  Brother  Huston  should  be 
excluded  from  the  Benefits  of  Masonry  for  the  Term 
of  One  Year,  and  that  the  Secretary  of  this  Lodge 
give  immediate  Notice  of  the  same  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

November  16,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
20  members  and  10  Visitors.  Mark  Cowperthwait 
initiated.  Petitions  from  James  Miller  and  James  Mc- 
Guirck.  Joseph  Burden  and  Napthali  Campbell  ad- 
vanced to  Fellow  Craft  C  Schweitzer  adv^  to  Master 
Mason. 

December  14,  i755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  37 
members  and  6  Visitors.  Election,  David  Irving  W. 
M.-John  Ream  S.  W.-Felix  McCarthy  J.  W.- 
Abram  Morrow  S.  D.— Samuel  Lees,  Junior  D.— 
Praise  Wadman  Treasurer.— Edward  Robinson,  Secty. 
Petitions  from  James  Crawford  David  G.  Vance, 
Anthony  Yerkes,  George  McNeer,  John  Oldham  and 
Lambert  Ledant.  David  Sayres  approved  and  initi- 
ated    John  Steel  withdraws. 

December  21,  i7P5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
25  members  &  16  Visitors.  D.  Irving  installed  W.  M. 
and  the  four  other  elective  officers,  S  W,  J  W,  Secty 
and  Treas^      L.  Justice,  M.   Murphy  &  Jno.  Barry 

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advanced   to    Fellow    Craft.       Jno    Kessler   adv^    to 
Master  Mason. 

A  Past  Master's  Lodge  was  opened  in  due  form 
and  Brother  David  Irving  was  installed  Worshipful 
Master.  The  Past  Master's  Lodge  was  closed  and  a 
Master  Mason's  Lodge  opened.  Brother  John  Kean 
was  duly  installed  Senior  Warden;  Brother  Felix 
McCarthy,  Junior  Warden;  Brother  Praise  Wadman, 
Treasurer;  and  Edward  Robinson,  Secretary.  The 
Master  Mason's  Lodge  was  closed  and  a  Fellow 
Craft's  Lodge  opened— the  minutes  of  the  preceding 
Lodge  Night  were  read. 

List  of  Members  from   St.   John's  Day,   Dec,   1792,   to 

Dec,  1795. 


Praise  "Wadman,  M.  M. 
Jacob  Bankson 
Joseph  Dean 
William  Yard 
Joshua  Z.  Cozens 
John  Riley 
Robert  Lumsden 
John  Morris 
Joseph  Gamble 
George  Laney 
John  O'Hara 
Edward  Far  one 
John  Kelly 
David  McCullough 
John  Justice 
Henry  Myers 
John  Duffield 
Thomas  Coffee 
Henry  Wistar 
John  Boyd,  M.  M. 


Richard  Hicks,  M.  M. 
Thomas  Brown 
Benjamin  Cowan 
Rogers 
Charles  Divine,  M.  M. 
John  Martin 
Joseph  Whitehead 
John  Morton 
John  Patton 
John  Hammill 
Rudeman  Robeson 
David  Irvdng 
Richard  Morthwaite 
Rufus  Green 
John  Huston 
James  Shaw,  M.  M. 
John  Brown 
John  Boyd,  M.  M. 
John  Brock 
Christian  Hubbard 


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Thomas  Cash 
Levi  Jordan 
Dennis  McLaughlin 
Augustine  Jones — F 
Joseph  Mansfield 
Jonathan  Butler 
Gordon  McNeil 
MUes  Rourke 
Abram  Morrow 
Michael  Wistar 
Charles  McManamy 
Edward  Robinson 
John  Baxter 
Sam'.  Cowperthwaite 
William  Duntia 
John  Cloer 
John  Patterson 
Oliver  Rhea 
Christ".  Sweitzer 
Joshua  Buffington 
Joseph  Burdin 
Michael  Murphy 
Joshua  Mitchell 
Joseph  Pierce 
Felix  McCarthy,  M.  M. 
John  Steel 
Andrew  B.  Bankson 
John  Smith 


Robert  McFee 
Nathan  Jarvis 
Thomas  F.  Lawler 
Craft  Samuel  Lees 

John  Anderson,  M.  M. 
William  Harrison 
John  R.  Taylor 
John  Reiley 
John  Kean,  M.  M. 
Hugh  Manning- 
John  Kessler 
Timothy  O'Brien 
John  Barry 
Mark  Cowperthwaite 
Napthali  Campbell 
Samuel  Mitchell 
Lawrence  Justice 
Thomas  Ventenburgh 
David  Sayres 
James  Miller 
James  McGuirk 
James  Crawford 
David  G.  Vance 
Anthony  Yerkes 
George  McNeer 
John  Oldham 
Lambert  Ledant. 


In  Testimony  whereof  David  Irving  the  Worshipful  Master 
of  said  Lodge  No  2  has  hereunto  set  his  Hand  and  caused  the 
Seal  of  the  said  Lodge  to  be  affixed  in  open  Lodge  held  at 
Philadelphia  the  21^'.  Day  of  December  Anno  Domini  1795 

(signed)  David  Irving 

[seal]       Attest 

(signed)     Edward  Robinson,  Sec'y. 

Monday,  January  11,  iZi'^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present 
28  members  and  20  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M. 

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Wm.  M.  Smith  Bro  Jas  Miller  Jas  Crawford  ap- 
proved,—James  McGuirck  &  David  G.  Vance,  Peti- 
tions withdrawn.  Lambert  Ledourt,  Eejected.  Peti- 
tions from  A.  B.  Spinacuta,  Lewis  Collins  and  Peter 
Buddy.  Bal.  in  Treas  hands  $288.35  cts.  Thos 
Vantenburgh  &  D  Sayres  adv*^  to  Fellow  Craft.  ''On 
Motion  made  and  seconded  It  was  agreed,  That  this 
Lodge  in  future  hold  their  Stated  Meetings  on  the 
Second  and  Fourth  Mondays  in  each  month:  and  that 
notice  of  the  same  be  transmitted  to  the  Grand  Secty. 
Bro  Jno  Boyd  applies  for  Grand  Lodge  Certificate. 

January  12,  i7P^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  (10  a.  m.) 
Present  10  members  &  2  Visitors.  Bro  David  Sayre 
advanced  to  Master  Mason  Lodge  closed  at  12 
O'clock 

January  18,  i7P<>.— Adjourned  lodge  [private]. 
Present  18  members  James  Crawford  initiated.  A 
Committee  appointed  to  revise  the  Bye  Laws. 

That  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  call  upon  the 
Members  absent  this  Evening  and  in  Arrears  to  the 
Lodge  in  order  to  collect  the  dues  owing  by  each— 
Whereupon 

The  Standing  Committee  consisting  of  Brother 
David  Irving  Brother  John  Kean  and  Brother  Felix 
McCarthy  were  appointed  to  call  upon  the  following 
Members  to  wit— 

Bros.  John  Salsbury  Bros.  John  Baxter 

"       William  Guise  "       Chas.  McManamy 

"      Asheton  Humphreys  "      Levi  Jordan 
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Bros.  John  Rice 

"  John  Davidson 

"  William  Yard 

"  Francis  Hancong 

"  John  Cope 

"  Thomas  Search 

"  Henry  Robinson 

"  John  Service 

"  Joseph  Gamble 

"  George  Laney 

"  John  Justice 

"  William  Milnor 

"  James  Sutter 

"  Elijah  Cozens 

"  Jeremiah  Fisher 

"  George  A.  Baker 

"  Sam'.  Jarvis 

"  George  Kitts 

"  Thomas  Cash 

"  Dennis  McLaughlin 

"  John  Anderson 


Bros.  Sam'.  Cowperthwaite 
John  Harrison 
John  Hammill 
John  Patton 
Joseph  Pierce 
Rob*.  McFee 
John  Brock 
And^  B.  Bankson 
Nathan  Jarvis 
Samuel  Lees 
Rufus  Green 
John  Cloer 
Christian  Sweitzer 
John  Barry 
Michael  Murphy 
Samuel  Mitchell 
Napthali  Campbell 
Joshua  Mitchell 
Thomas  Vantelburg 
Mark  Cowperthwaite. 


The  Secretary  was  ordered  to  issue  to  the  aforesaid 
Members  Special  Summons's  to  attend  next  Lodge 
Night. 

January  25,  i75^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  30 
members  15  Visitors.  Petitions  from  Peter  Maxton 
and  Allen  Pemberton  the  former  an  ancient  and  the 
latter  a  modem  Mason,  were  read"  Jno  Justice  adv*^ 
to  Fellow  Craft.  Jno  Justice  Wm  Yard  &  Joseph 
Burden  adv*^  to  Master  Mason. 

The  Grand  Secretary  presented  an  Account  Ag*. 
this  Lodge  in  favor  of  the  Grand  Lodge  amounting 
to  £  72—1-4  for  Dues  &'=  up  to  Dec^  27,  1795  which 
was  read.     Ordered— That  an  order  be  drawn  on  the 

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Treasurer  Bro.  Praise  Wadman  in  favor  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  for  Amount  of  said  account. 

February  8,  1796.— stated  Lodge.  Present  30 
members  and  23  Visitors.  Petitions  withdrawn  2, 
3  Approved,  3  Initiated  and  1  Raised 

February  22,  i75^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  29 
members  &  8  Visitors.  Initiation  1  Admission  1,  and 
1  Proposition 

March  14,  i75<>.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  35  mem- 
bers &  6  Visitors.  1  Approval  or  Admission,  3  Fel- 
low Craft. 

March  21,  i7P^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  12 
members  &  10  Visitors.  4  Raised,  John  Barry,  Jas. 
Crawford,  Lewis  Collins,  A.  B.  Spinacuta. 

March  28,  i75<?.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23  mem- 
bers &  9  Visitors.     2  Approvals  1  Initiated. 

The  Petition  of  Bro.  Peter  Love  which  lay  over  from 
last  Meeting  was  taken  up  and  again  read— and  on 
Motion  made  &  seconded.  It  was  agreed  That  Ten 
Dollars  be  granted  him  from  the  fund  of  the  Lodge, 
and  that  the  Standing  Committee  wait  upon  with  the 
same. 

April  11,  i7P<>.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  24  mem- 
bers &  12  Visitors.     1  Proposition 

A  Petition  from  Bartholomew  Van  Herr,  a  dis- 
tressed Brother,  praying  Relief  was  read.  Ordered— 
That  it  lie  over  for  consideration.  The  four  remain- 
ing Sections  of  the  Bye-Laws  which  lay  over  from 

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last  Stated  Meeting  were  taken  up  read  and  agreed 
to— And  the  whole  of  the  Bye-Laws  with  the  Preamble 
having  been  afterwards  read  and  the  voice  of  the 
Members  taken  thereon  they  were  unanimously  agreed 
to    and    adopted    as    the    Bye-Laws    of    this    Lodge. 

Ordered— That  the  Secretary  transcribe  the  same 
into  the  Book  of  Bye-Laws  and  have  them  ready  on 
next  Stated  Meeting  for  the  Signature  of  the  Members. 

The  following  Eesolutions  were  read  «&  unanimously 
agreed  to.  Eesolved— That  each  member  of  this 
Lodge  who  is  in  arrears,  and  does  not  come  forward 
on  or  before  the  Second  Stated  Meeting  hereafter,  to 
wit.,  the  2^"^  Monday  in  May  next,  and  pay  up  his  dues 
or  give  satisfactory  Reasons  for  so  doing,  shall  be 
expelled  from  this  Lodge  and  his  name  sent  to  the 
Grand  Secretary  in  order  to  be  transmitted  to  all  the 
Lodges  under  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania.  Resolved— That  the  Secretary  be 
and  he  is  hereby  directed  to  send  a  Copy  of  the  fore- 
going Resolution  to  each  of  the  Brethren  who  is  in 
arrears  to  this  Lodge  four  days  at  least  previous  to 
each  of  our  two  next  Stated  Meetings. 

April  18,  i75<>.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  30 
members  &  6  Visitors.  Dispensation  from  R.  W. 
G.  M.  W^.  Moore  Smith  to  Enter  Pass  &  Raise 
Samuel  Fulton  1  Initiated,  3  Passed.  A  B 
Spinacuta  granted  a  Certificate 

April  19, 175>^.— Adjourned  Lodge  10  0 'Clock  A.  M. 
Present  12  members  2  Raised 

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April  25,  iZP^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  35  mem- 
bers &  16  Visitors.  (1  Prop  Jno  Eeilly  Jr).  1 
Passed  &  1  Initiated.  Lewis  Collins  grt^  a  G.  L. 
Certificate 

A  Communication  was  made  from  the  G*^  Secretary 
of  the  expulsion  of  Charles  Keyser  from  Concordia 
Lodge  No.  67.  The  said  Communication  was  read 
for  the  information  of  the  Members  of  this  Lodge. 

April  28,  i7P^.— Adjourned  Lodge  (10  a.  m). 
Present  12  members  &  2  Visitors.  A  Dispensation 
from  R  W.  G.  M.  to  Enter  Pass  &  Eaise  Sherman 
Buggies  &  apprv^  Initiated  &  3  Passed 

Friday,  April  29,  i7P^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
14  members  &  2  Visitors.     2  Raised. 

May  9,  i75>^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  36  members 
&  14  Visitors.     3  Raised. 

A  Communication  was  made  by  the  Grand  Secre- 
tary of  the  rejection  of  Hugh  Morrison  from  Lodge 
No.  19,  and  of  William  McFadden  from  Lodge  No.  9, 
the  same  was  read  for  the  information  of  this  Lodge. 
Bro\  Joshua  Buffington,  Thomas  Vantilburg  and 
Atton  Pemberton  were  severally  raised  in  ancient 
form  to  the  sublime  degree  of  Master  Mason. 

The  matter  depending  between  Bros.  John  Kean 
&  James  McGuirk,  which  was  to  have  been  taken  up 
this  evening  was  postponed  until  next  Stated  Meeting. 

May  16,  :Z7P<?.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  28 
members, 

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A  motion  was  made,  seconded  and  agreed  to— That 
the  following  Members  be  excluded  from  this  Lodge 
until  such  time  as  they  shall  come  forward  and  pay 
up  their  dues,  and  that  a  Minute  of  the  same  be  trans- 
ferred to  the  G"^.  Secretary:  William  Guise,  William 
Milnor,  Asheton  Humphreys,  Jeremiah  Fisher,  John 
Harrison,  Charles  McManamy,  George  Kitts,  Rich^. 
Hunt,  Thomas  Search  &  Nathan  Jarvis.  On  motion 
made,  seconded  and  agreed  to.  The  consideration 
of  the  Accounts  of  the  following  members  was  post- 
poned until  a  future  Meeting:— John  Rice,  Samuel 
Jarvis,  John  Hanunill,  Henry  Robinson,  John  Cope, 
Joseph  Pierce,  And''.  B.  Bankson,  John  Anderson, 
Dennis  McLaughlin,  Rufus  Green,  Napthali  Campbell, 
John  Brock,  Levi  Jordan,  &  Joshua  Mitchell.  On 
motion  made  and  agreed  to— The  Sum  of  Fifteen 
Dollars  was  granted  to  the  support  of  the  wife  of 
Brother  Dennis  McLaughlin,  to  be  subject  to  the 
order  of  the  Lodge  the  next  Stated  Meeting. 

May  23, 1796.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  29  members 
&  10  Visitors.  George  Fox 's  Petition  withdrawn  Jno 
Reilly  Jr.  approved     1  Raised     1  Initiated 

May  30,  i7i>^.— Special  Lodge.  Present  22  mem- 
bers    1  Raised  1  Passed, 

The  Lodge  having  entered  upon  the  private  busi- 
ness of  this  Meeting.  On  motion  made  seconded  & 
agreed  to.  The  following  Brethren  were  no  longer 
considered  Members  of  this  Lodge,  viz:— John  Sals- 

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bury,  Francis  Hancong  and  Elijah  Cozens.  On  mo- 
tion made,  seconded  and  agreed  to  Bro^  George  Laney 
and  John  Hammill  were  excluded  from  this  Lodge 
until  such  time  as  they  shall  come  forward  and  pay 
up  their  Dues;  and  a  Minute  of  their  exclusion  was 
ordered  to  be  transmitted  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Grrand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania.  On  motion  made, 
seconded  and  agreed  to  Ordered  That  Bro^  John 
Brock  and  Kichard  Hunt  be  served  with  a  special 
Notice  to  attend  next  Stated  Meeting  and  pay  up 
their  Dues,  Or  shew  Reason  why  they  should  not  be 
expelled. 

June  13,  i75(>.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  44  mem- 
bers &  10  Visitors.     John  Brock  Jno  Reilly  Jr  Raised 

A  Letter  from  Bro^  Asheton  Humphreys  inclosing 
an  account  against  Lodge  No.  2,  and  requesting  leave 
to  withdraw  from  this  Lodge  and  receive  a  Certificate 
on  paying  the  balance  of  said  account,  was  read  and 
the  sense  of  the  Lodge  having  been  taken  thereon  it 
was  agreed  to.  The  Committee  appointed  to  enquire 
into  the  Character  Bro"".  Charles  McManany,  made 
an  unfavorable  Report— which  having  been  considered 
by  the  Lodge  and  the  said  Brother  heard  in  his  own 
defence,  the  Sense  of  the  Lodge  was  taken  on  the 
Report,  and  on  motion  made  and  seconded  that  he 
should  be  expelled  it  was  unanimously  agreed  to. 
Ordered— That  the  Secretary  transmit  a  Minute  of 
the  expulsion  of  the  said  Charles  McManany  to  the 

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Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  to  be  communicated 
from  thence  to  all  the  Lodges  under  its  Jurisdiction. 
On  motion  made  and  seconded  The  expulsion  of  Bro^ 
Richard  Hunt  from  this  Lodge  was  postponed,  and 
Bro'■^  Praise  Wadman,  George  A.  Baker  and  Rude- 
man  Robeson  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  call 
upon  him  and  report  next  stated  meeting.  Bro'■^ 
John  Patterson  and  Peter  Maxton,  having  applied 
therefor,  obtained  Certificates  from  this  Lodge  as 
they  were  going  abroad. 

Election  David  Irving  W  M,— John  Boyd  S.  W.— 
Samuel  Lees  J.  W.— Praise  Wadman,  Treasurer,— 
Edward  Robinson,  Secretary.— Jno  Baxter  S.  D.— 
Christian  Sweitzer  J.  D.  Bro  Joseph  Mansfield  and 
John  Cloer  were  appointed  to  serve  as  Stewards  for 
the  ensuing  six  months. 

June  14,  i7P^.— Adjourned  Lodge  (10  a.  m).  Pres- 
ent 11  members  2  Raised  1  Crafted 

June  20,  i75^.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  14  members 
&  4  Visitors.  Balance  in  Treas"-  $295.26.  Officers 
Installed. 

June  27,  i75^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors.  1  application,  a  second  petition 
from  Jas.  McGuirk  was  withdrawn, 

July  2,  17P^.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  7  members 
1  Entered  1  Crafted 

July  11,  i75^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  29  members 
&  Visitors     1  Raised,  1  Pet.  withdrawn— 1  Pet  rec^ 

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''Resolved  That  every  member  and  visitors  of  this 
Lodge  shall  on  their  first  entrance  into  the  room  step 
foi-ward  to  the  Secretary's  Table  and  pay  the  dues 
of  the  evening  according  to  our  By  Laws."  "Re- 
solved That  any  member  of  this  Lodge  who  shall 
enter  the  Room  without  being  properly  clothed  shall 
be  presented  with  an  Apron  by  the  Lodge,  which 
Apron  shall  be  charged  to  his  account."  "The 
Brethren  having  taken  into  consideration,  what  num- 
ber of  shares  should  be  subscribed  on  the  part  of 
this  Lodge  to  the  Plan  adopted  for  the  erection  of 
a  New  Lodge.  A  Motion  was  made  seconded  That 
sixty  shares  be  subscribed  and  the  sense  of  the  Lodge 
having  been  taken  thereon,  it  was  agreed  to  unani- 
mously. Ordered  That  the  Treasurer  subscribed  for 
Sixty  shares  in  the  name  of  this  Lodge ;  pay  the  first 
Instalment  and  take  a  receipt  therefor." 

July  25,  i75^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  26  mem- 
bers and  9  Visitors. 

August  8,  17 96. Stsited  Lodge.  Present  27  mem- 
bers and  7  Visitors.  1  Withdraws  1  Approved  4 
Petition     2  Withdraw, 

Wednesday,  August  17,  i7P^.— Extra  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 10  members  I  Entered  &  1  Passed 

Thursday,  August  18,  i7P^.— Adjourned  Lodge. 
Present  10  members  1,  Raised, 

August  22,  JT'P^— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors.  On  Motion  Bro  McCarthy  was 
appointed  Inside  Tyler, 

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A  motion  was  made  &  seconded  that  B^  Kessler  be 
authorized  to  furnish  this  Lodge  against  next  Stated 
night  with  three  dozen  of  Tumblers  &  three  dozen  of 
wine  Glasses.  On  which  motion  the  sense  of  the 
lodge  was  taken  it  was  agreed  to.  That  two  dozen 
of  Aprons  be  provided  for  the  use  of  the  members 
of  this  lodge,  whereupon  the  Sense  of  the  Lodge  was 
taken  and  the  motion  agreed  to. 

September  12,  i756\— Stated  Lodge  Night.  Present 
30  members  and  17  Visitors.    6  Approved  5  Entered, 

September  14,  1796.— 3.  P.  M.  adjourned  Lodge. 
Present  14  members  1  Approved  1  Entered,  3  Crafted. 

September  16,  1796.— 3  P.  M.  adjourned  Lodge. 
Present  7  members     3  Raised 

September  26,  i75tf.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  24 
members  &  7  Visitors.      2  Passed, 

October  10,  i7i>^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers &  8  Visitors.  2  Petitions  1  Crafted  2  Raised 
1  Withdrew. 

October  24,  1796.—Stated  Lodge.  Present  29  mem- 
bers &  6  Visitors.  2  Petitions  1  Withdrew— 1 
Crafted— 1  Raised. 

November  14,  1796.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  26 
members  &  7  Visitors.  1  Petition  Withdrawn— 2 
Approved— 1  Entered  and  1  Expelled. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  investi- 
gation of  the  Charge  of  B"".  George  A.  Baker  against 
B""  Joshua  Mitchell  gave  in  a  report  accompanied  by 

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a  Statement  of  the  Charge  both  of  which  were  read, 
and  after  Some  time  spent  thereon,  on  motion  made, 
seconded  &  agreed  to— Resolved— That  in  consequence 
of  the  wicked  and  unfounded  reports  spread  abroad 
by  B".  Mitchell  against  B^  G.  A.  Baker  &  his  Family 
to  the  injury  of  their  Character,  he  the  Said  Joshua 
Mitchell  be  and  he  is  hereby  Expelled  from  the 
benefit  of  Masonry  in  Lodge  No.  2— and  that  a  minute 
of  his  expulsion  therefrom  be  transmitted  to  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  and  in  order  to  be 
forwarded  to  the  several  Lodges  under  its  Jurisdic- 
tion. 

Novemher  28,  i7P<?.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25 
members  &  10  Visitors.      3  Petition     2  Re-admitted. 

December  12,  i7P^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  27 
members  &  5  Visitors.  3  approved  2  Entered  and  1 
Crafted. 

December  19,  i7P<?.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  25 
members  1  Raised  ''The  Lodge  having  agreed 
upon  dining  together  on  next  St  John's  Day,  Bros  D 
Irwin,  Jno.  Boyd,  Samuel  Lees,  John  Kessler  and 
Joseph  Mansfield  were  appointed  a  Committee  to 
provide  a  place  and  do  the  needful  in  that  business." 

December  26,  175^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  31 
members  &  14  Visitors.  3  Approved  3  Entered. 
Election  David  Irwin  W.  M.— S  Lees  S.  W.— Jno 
Kessler,  J.  W.— Praise  Wadman,  Treas^- Edw*^ 
Robinson,    Secty.— Jno    Baxter    S.    D.— Jno    Brown, 

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J.  D.— Joseph  Mansfield  &  Jos  Gatty  appf^  Stewards. 
Felix  McCarthy,  Inside  and  John  Wheelan,  Outside 
Tylers,  Officers  elect  were  then  installed. 

At  the  Grand  Quarterly  Communication  held 
December  5,  1796,  the  following  resolution  was 
adopted : 

On  motion  and  seconded,  that  a  Committee  be  appointed 
to  frame  an  address  to  be  presented  on  the  ensuing  Feast  of 
St.  John,  Dec.  27th,  to  the  Great  Master  Workman,  our  IIP 
Bro.  Washington,  on  the  occasion  of  his  intended  retirement 
from  public  labor,  to  be  also  laid  before  the  said  Grand  Lodge 
on  St.  John's  day,  and  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master,  Deputy 
G.  M.,  Bros.  Sadler,  Milnor,  and  Williams  were  accordingly 
appointed. 

In  pursuance  of  above  resolution  at  the  Grand 
Lodge  held  on  St.  John's  Day,  December  27,  1796: 

The  Committee  appointed  to  prepare  an  address  to  our  Bro. 
Geo.  Washington,  President  of  the  United  States,  presented 
an  address  by  them  drawn  up,  which  was  ordered  to  be  read, 
and  in  the  words  following,  to  wit : 

To  Geo.  Washington,  Peesident  of  the  United  States, 
The  Address  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania: 

Most  Respected  Sir  and  Brother:  "Having  announced  your 
intention  to  retire  from  Public  Labor  to  that  Refreshment  to 
which  your  pre-eminent  services  for  near  half  a  century  have 
so  justly  entitled  you;  Permit  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsyl- 
vania at  this  last  Feast  of  our  Evangelic  Master  St.  John, 
on  which  we  can  hope  for  an  immediate  Communication  with 
you,  to  join  the  grateful  voice  of  our  Country  in  acknowl- 
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edging  that  you  have  carried  forth  the  principles  of  the 
Lodge  into  every  walk  of  your  life  by  your  constant  labors 
for  the  prosperity  of  that  Country,  by  your  unremitting  en- 
deavors to  promote  Order,  Union  and  Brotherly  Affection 
amongst  us,  and  lastly  by  the  vows  of  your  farewell  address 
to  your  brethren  and  fellow  Citizens:  an  address  which  we 
trust  our  children  and  our  children's  children  will  ever  look 
upon  as  a  most  invaluable  legacy  from  a  Friend,  a  Benefactor 
and  a  Father. 

"To  these  our  grateful  acknowledgments  (leaving  to  the 
impartial  pen  of  History  to  record  the  important  events  in 
which  you  have  borne  so  illustrious  a  part)  permit  us  to  add 
our  most  fervent  prayers,  that  after  enjoying  to  the  utmost 
span  of  Human  Life  every  felicity  which  the  Terrestrial 
Lodge  can  afford,  you  may  be  received  by  the  Great  Master 
Builder  of  this  World  and  of  Worlds  unnumbered  into  the 
ample  felicity  of  that  Celestial  Lodge,  in  which  alone  dis- 
tinguished virtues  and  distinguished  labors  can  be  eternally 
rewarded. ' ' 

It  was  then  moved  and  seconded  that  the  same  be  adopted. 
Upon  the  question  being  taken  it  appeared  that  it  was  ap- 
proved. On  motion  made  and  seconded,  it  was  agreed  that 
a  Committee  be  appointed  to  wait  on  Bro.  Washington  to 
acquaint  him  that  it  is  the  intention  of  this  Gr*^  Lodge  to 
present  an  address  to  him,  and  to  know  what  time  he  shall 
be  pleased  to  appoint  to  receive  it. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  perfom  this  duty  were  Bros. 
William  Smith,  Peter  Le  Barbier  Du  Plessis,  and  Thomas 
Proctor,  who,  after  having  waited  on  him,  reported  that  he 
had  appointed  to-morrow  12  o  'clock  to  receive  it.  Said  Com- 
mittee, to  wit:  Bros.  W.  Smith,  Du  Plessis,  and  Proctor, 
together  with  the  R.  W.  D.  G.  M.,  Senior  and  Junior  Wardens, 

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Grand  Secretary,  and  the  Masters  of  the  different  Lodges  in 
the  city,  were  then  appointed  a  deputation  to  present  the 
said  address. 

At  the  adjourned  Lodge,  held  on  January  2,  1797, 
the  following  report  was  made,  viz. ; 

The  Deputation  appointed  on  St.  John's  Day  to  present 
the  address  on  that  day  agreed  to,  to  our  Bro.  Geo.  Wash- 
ington, reported  that  they  had  waited  on  him  and  presented 
him  the  said  address,  and  that  he  had  returned  them  an 
answer,  which  is  in  the  words  following: 

Fellow-Citizens  and  Brothers  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania:  ''I  have  received  your  address  with  all  the 
feelings  of  Brotherly  affection  mingled  with  those  sentiments 
for  the  Society  which  it  was  calculated  to  excite.  To  have 
been,  in  any  degree,  an  instrument  in  the  hands  of  Providence 
to  promote  Order  and  Union,  and  erect  upon  a  solid  founda- 
tion the  true  principles  of  Government,  is  only  to  have  shared 
with  many  others  in  a  labor,  the  result  of  which,  let  us  hope, 
will  prove  through  all  ages  a  sanctuary  for  Brothers,  and  a 
Lodge  for  the  virtues. 

"Permit  me  to  reciprocate  your  prayers  for  my  temporal 
happiness,  and  to  supplicate  that  we  may  all  meet  thereafter 
in  that  Eternal  Temple  whose  builder  is  the  Great  Architect 
of  the  Universe." 

The  original  address,  read  to  President  Washington, 
as  well  as  his  reply,  is  in  the  Museum  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  Library  in  Philadelphia. 

January  9,  1797.— stated  Lodge.     Present  34  mem- 

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bers  &  4  Visitors.  Amount  in  Treasurers  hands 
$371.48     3  Applications     2  Crafted     1  Withdrawn 

January  23,  J7P7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  27 
members  &  8  Visitors.     4  Crafted     2  applications 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Letter 
of  B""  R.  C.  Murray  respecting  a  misunderstanding 
between  him  and  B""  M.  Murphy  of  this  Lodge  reported 
as  follows— That  an  interview  had  taken  place  be- 
tween the  parties,  and  the  matter  in  dispute  was  set- 
tled to  their  Satisfaction— The  W.  M.  from  the  Stand- 
ing Committee  who  were  authorized  to  call  upon  B^ 
John  Mathews  and  Ann  McGuire  the  Widow  of  a 
deceased  Brother  who  petitioned  this  Lodge  for  relief. 
Reported  That  the  Committee  waited  upon  B'"  John 
Mathews  &  paid  him  the  fifteen  Dollars  which  were 
granted  him  on  the  last  meeting  and  that  his  situation 
was  such  as  demanded  relief— and  That  they  waited 
upon  Ann  McGuire  also  but  are  of  opinion  that  she 
is  not  at  present  entitled  to  any  support  from  the 
funds  of  this  Lodge. 

February  6,  :Z757.— Special  Lodge.  Present  7  mem- 
bers, 6  Suspended 

February  13,  i75'7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  33 
members  and  25  Visitors.  2  Approvals  1  Rejection 
1  Entered    2  Withdrawn. 

February  27,  i7P7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  34 
members  &  7  Visitors. 

B""  John  Patton  ha^dng  communicated  his  intended 

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departure  from  this  Country  for  some  time  requested 
of  the  Lodge  that  he  should  be  considered  by  them 
as  an  Honorary  Member  on  which  the  sense  of  the 
lodge  being  taken  it  was  agreed  to. 

1  Approved,  1  Entered,  2  Raised,  1  Pet  withdrew 
and  1  Withdrawn  (Int''  Fee  $20.) 

March  13,  1797 —Stated  Lodge.  Present  27  mem- 
bers and  11  Visitors.  1  Crafted  3  Raised  1  With- 
drawn '' Resolved  That  any  member  or  members  of 
this  Lodge  who  shall  be  accused  and  proof  made  of 
his  or  their  having  knowingly  visited  any  irregular 
Lodge  or  Lodges  within  the  Jurisdiction  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  or  elsewhere  shall  be  expelled  from 
this  Lodge  and  his  or  their  names  and  expulsion  sent 
to  the  Grand  Secretary  in  order  to  be  forwarded  to 
the  different  Lodges  under  the  Jurisdiction  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania." 

March  27,  17 97. —Stated  Lodge.  Present  24  mem- 
bers and  11  Visitors.     1  Application     2  Raised. 

April  10,  17 97. Stated  Lodge.  Present  27  mem- 
bers &  5  Visitors.  1  Application  1  Crafted  ''A 
motion  was  made  seconded  and  agreed  to  That  the 
Lodge  rest  satisfied  with  the  declaration  of  Bro 
Praise  Wadman  reimbursing  the  monies  which  he 
held  as  Treasurer  of  this  Lodge  and  which  were  lost. ' ' 

April  24,  17 97. Stated  Lodge.  Present  26  mem- 
bers &  9  Visitors.  1  Approval  1  Rejoined  1  En- 
tered 

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The  remainder  of  the  by-laws  which  lay  over  from 
the  last  meeting  having  been  taken  up,  and  read  by 
Sections,  they  were  agreed  to  B^  John  Hepler  was 
authorized  to  furnish  the  lodge  with  one  dozen  of 
Book  of  Constitution,  and  one  dozen  of  Aprons. 

May  8,  1757.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  29  members 
and  4  Visitors.     2  Applications     2  Crafted 

On  motion  made  &  seconded— Resolved— That  the 
code  of  bye-laws  adopted  this  evening  shall  not  come 
into  operation  until  the  first  stated  meeting  after 
S'.  John's  Day. 

May  22,  1757.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  30  members 
&  16  Visitors.     1  Approval     1  Entered 

A  Letter  with  sundry  papers  &  Documents  were 
received  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  was 
read  for  the  information  of  the  Members. 

May  30,  i757.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  16 
members,  2  Raised 

June  12,  1757.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  30  mem- 
bers &  8  Visitors.  1  Approval  1  Pet  by  Disp° 
approved  1  Application  1  Entered.  Election  David 
Irwin  W.  M.— John  Kessler,  S.  W.— John  Phillips, 
J.  W.— John  Cope  Treas"".— Edward  Robinson,  Secty 
— Jas  Crawford,  S.  D.— Caspar  Graeff,  J.  D.— John 
Wheeler  &  Felix  McCarthy  were  appointed  Outside 
&  Inside  Tyler.  Joseph  Mansfield  and  Joseph  Gatty, 
Stewards— 1  Rejected 

A  Letter  from  B^  Chr  Hubbard  was  read  stating 

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that  the  affair  which  deprived  him  from  attending 
this  Lodge,  was  not  as  yet  settled  and  on  that  account 
could  not  with  Satisfaction  attend.  Whereupon  it 
was  ordered— That  B"".  C.  Hubbard  should  be  in- 
formed that  it  was  the  desire  of  the  Lodge  that  his 
account  with  them  should  rest  as  it  is  at  present 
until  such  time  as  the  Matter  would  be  cleared  up. 

June  13,  i 75?'.— Adjourned  Lodge  (7  a  m).  Pres- 
ent 10  members  &  2  Visitors.— Officers  Installed. 
Lodge  closed  at  8  O'clock. 

Saturday,  June  17,  i757.— Extra  Lodge  (4  P  M). 
Present  6  members  &  2  Visitors     1  Crafted. 

Monday,  Jidy  3,  i757.— Extra  Lodge  (7  a.  m.). 
Present  5  members  1  Eaised.  Lodge  Closed  at  8 
0  clock. 

July  10,  i757.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  30  members 
and  6  Visitors.     1  Crafted. 

The  Standing  Committee  reported  that  they  had 
examined  &  compared  the  accounts  and  vouchers  of 
B"".  Praise  Wadman  late  Treasurer  &  those  of  B^ 
John  Hepler  Treasurer  pro-tem.  and  that  there  stands 
to  the  debit  of  the  former  a  balance  of  365.65  Dollars 
and  the  debit  of  the  latter  70  Dollars  Exclusive  of  one 
Hundred  Dollars  which  were  subunted  &  paid  towards 
building  a  New  Grand  lodge— Ordered— That  B''  John 
Hepler  pay  over  to  the  present  Treasurer  B""  John 
Cope  the  70  Dollars  aforesaid  and  that  B""  Praise 
Wadman  delivered  to  him  also   the  receipt  for  the 

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payment  of  the  one  hundred  Dollars  as  before  men- 
tioned. 

Thursday,  July  13,  i75>?'.— Adjourned  Lodge.  3 
p.  m.  Present  11  members  and  2  Visitors.  1  Ap- 
proved    1  Entered     1  Eaised 

A  Bill  for  Printing  188  Copies  of  the  by-laws  of 
this  Lodge  was  presented  &  read— Ordered— That  the 
amount  thereof  being  8.50  Doll  be  paid. 

August  14,  :Z7P7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  27  mem- 
bers and  10  Visitors.     1  Crafted 

A  Letter  from  the  Grand  Committee  of  Charity 
addressed  to  the  different  Lodges  in  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  was  read,  which  stated  that  they  (the 
Committee  of  Charity)  had  paid  the  sum  of  forty 
Dollars  for  the  Passage  of  Br.  Randal  McDonald 
from  Ireland  to  Philadelphia  and  now  pray  the  dif- 
ferent lodges  to  subscribe  such  sums  as  they  may 
think  proper  until  such  time  as  the  said  B'"  Randal 
McDonald  shall  have  repaid  them  when  the  subscrib- 
ing Lodges  shall  be  reimbursed  the  sum  subscribed 
by  them  respectively.  On  motion— Ordered— that 
this  lodge  grant  them  the  sum  of  five  Dollars  for  the 
purpose  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  Letter. 

August  28,  1757.— Extra  Lodge.  2pm  Present 
10  members  and  7  Visitors.  1  Entered  1  Crafted 
Lodge  adjourned  until  4  0 'Clock 

August  28,  1757.— Adjourned  Lodge.  4  p.  m. 
Present  10  members  and  6  Visitors.  1  Raised  (Fee 
$25.) 

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September  1,  1757.— Extra  Lodge.  2  p.  m.  Pres- 
ent 9  members  &  6  Visitors.  1  Approved  1  Entered 
1  Crafted     1  Raised 

September  11,  i757.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  6 
members  &  7  Visitors.     1  Application     1  Raised 

There  will  be  no  stated  meeting  on  account  of  the 
prevailing  epidemic  (Yellow  fever)  Lodge  closed 
at  8  O'clock 

October  20,  1757.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  5  mem- 
bers and  8  Visitors.  1  approved  1  Entered  1 
Crafted 

A  Dispensation  from  the  Rt.  W.  G.  Master  W°. 
Moore  Smith  to  enter,  pass  &  raise  George  Lamb, 
Mariner,  was  read  «&  approved  of  By  the  Lodge. 

October  23,  1757.- Extra  Lodge.  Present  15  mem- 
bers and  10  Visitors.     2  Raised 

November  13,  i757.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23 
members  and  24  Visitors.      1  Approved      1  Entered 

The  W.  M.  from  the  Committee  who  were  appointed 
in  August  last  on  the  Petition  of  B""  W"".  Dickson 
praying  assistance— Reported— That  the  said  B""  was 
found  deserving  and  that  the  sum  which  was  granted 
him,  had  been  paid  &  a  receipt  received  thereof. 
The  Resolutions  which  were  transmitted  from  Lodge 
No.  52  in  August  last  respecting  the  admission  of 
Master  of  Lodges  &  Committees  either  from  the 
Grand  Lodge  or  individual  Lodges  without  the  pay- 
ment of  dues  were  taken  up  and  read,  and  ordered 

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to  lie  over  until  next  Stated  meeting.  The  Committee 
wlio  were  appointed  on  the  Matter  in  dispute  between 
B--  Ale\  Phillips  of  Lodge  No  9  i&  B"-  Ab"".  Murrow 
of  this  Lodge  were  continued  on  that  business  until 
the  next  Stated  night.  A  Petition  from  Sarah  Jordan 
the  widow  of  a  deceased  member  of  this  lodge  praying 
relief  was  read— and  on  motion  made  and  agreed  to, 
the  sum  of  ten  Dollars  was  granted  for  her  relief 
from  the  funds  of  this  Lodge  to  be  paid  her  by  the 
hands  of  B^  Sam'  Lees.  The  W.  M.  informed  the 
Lodge  that  he  had  given  an  order  on  the  Treasurer 
for  five  Dollars,  to  release  a  B^  who  had  been  im- 
prisoned for  Debt,  and  submitted  it  to  the  Lodge, 
whether  or  not  the  Treasurer  might  be  credited  there- 
with. Whereupon  the  Lodge  agreed  that  the  Treas- 
urer should  credit  himself  with  the  said  sum.  The 
W.  M,  also  submitted  to  the  Lodge  the  propriety  of 
reimbursing  him  the  sum  of  16s  2d  which  he  advanced 
for  the  attendance  of  a  Physician  on  B""  John  Mathews. 
Ordered  that  the  said  sum  be  reimbursed. 

December  11,  1757.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  33 
members  and  12  Visitors.  3  Applications,  Election, 
David  Irwin  W.  M.— John  Kessler,  S.  W.— John 
Phillips  J.  W.— John  Cope  Treas''— Edward  Robinson, 
Secty,— James  Crawford,  S.  D.— Casper  Graaf  J.  D. 
—Felix  McCarthy  inside  and  Jolm  Wlieelan,  outside 
Tyler,— Joseph  Gatty  and  Joseph  Mansfield,  Stewards. 

A   Communication  from  the   Grand   Committee   of 

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Charity  recommending  Brother  W"".  Healey  &  Ms 
family  to  the  consideration  of  this  Lodge  for  relief 
was  presented  &  read— Ordered  that  the  Standing 
Committee  of  this  Lodge  enquire  into  the  nature  of 
Situation  and  report  thereon.  A  Petition  from  B^ 
Jacob  Auld  in  behalf  of  the  orphan  Children  of  our 
Deceased  late  Brother  Laurence  Justice  praying  relief 
for  them  was  presented  and  read— Ordered— that  the 
said  Petition  be  referred  to  the  aforesaid  Committee, 
and  that  twenty  Dollars  be  placed  in  their  hands  to 
be  distributed  as  necessity  require.  A  Petition  from 
Mary  Lawless  the  widow  of  Deceased  Brother  praying 
relief  was  read.  Ordered— that  it  be  referred  to  the 
above  Committee  and  that  ten  Dollars  be  placed  in 
their  hands  to  be  disposed  of  as  they  may  think 
proper  for  her  relief.  A  petition  from  W™.  Euston 
in  the  Debtor  apartment,  praying  relief  was  read— 
Ordered— that  the  said  Petition  be  rejected.  The 
Resolutions  of  Lodge  No.  52  which  lay  over  from  our 
last  meeting  were  taken  up  &  Read.  On  motion, 
Ordered— that  this  Lodge  concur  with  Lodge  No.  52 
in  the  adoption  of  those  resolutions,  provided  that  the 
several  Lodges  in  this  City  concur  also.  The  follow- 
ing resolutions  were  presented  and  read— Resolved— 
that  the  word  fifty  in  the  1^^  Section  of  our  by-laws 
be  struck  out  and  the  word  twenty-five  be  inserted  in 
lieu  thereof.  Resolved— that  the  12^^  Section  of  our 
by-laws  be  struck  out  and  the  following  inserted  in 

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its  stead— No  Eefreshments  shall  be  provided  at  any- 
Meeting  whatever  out  of  the  funds  of  the  Lodge: 
Ordered— that  it  lie  over  for  Consideration.  A  Bill  of 
one  Dollar  &  fifty  cents  for  repairing  and  putting 
Locks  on  the  Pedistal  was  presented  by  B"".  John 
Cloer,  and  read— Ordered— that  the  amount  thereof 
be  placed  to  his  credit  in  account  with  the  lodge. 

December  12,  i757.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Sam. 
Present  8  members  &  2  Visitors.  1  Crafted  &  Officers 
installed.     Lodge  closed  at  9  0 'Clock 

January  8,  i75>(5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  mem- 
bers &  12  Visitors.    3  Approved    3  Entered    1  Raised 

The  Standing  Committee  to  whom  were  referred 
the  petition  of  B""  Jacob  Auld  in  behalf  of  the  orphan 
Children  of  our  late  Brother  Laurence  Justice  Dec'd 
—the  petition  of  Mary  Lawless  widow  of  a  deceased 
brother  and  a  recommendation  from  the  Grand  Com- 
mittee of  Charity  in  favor  of  Br.  W°.  Healey  and 
family  reported  as  follows— to  wit— that  they  have 
granted  for  the  use  of  the  orphan  Children  of  Br 
Justice  Twenty  Dollars  for  use  of  the  widow  Mary 
Lawless  ten  Dollars,  and  recommend  that  the  sum  of 
ten  Dollars  be  granted  toward  the  relief  of  B'"  W"". 
Healey  and  his  family— Ordered— That  the  said  re- 
port be  approved  of  and  that  ten  Dollars  recommended 
for  the  use  of  B'"  Healey  &  family  be  accordingly 
granted.  The  Committee  of  Grievances  to  whom  was 
referred  the   Complaint  lodged  by  B""  Ale''.   Phillips 

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of  Lodge  No.  9  against  B"".  Abr"".  Murrow  of  tliis 
Lodge  reported  that  the  matter  in  dispute  between 
the  two  brethren  was  settled  agreeably  to  an  article 
signed  by  the  parties  &  which  accompanied  the  report. 
A  Petition  from  Tho^  McCabe  Jun"".  a  distressed  B"" 
praying  relief  was  read— Ordered— that  the  Standing 
Committee  enquire  into  the  nature  of  his  Situation 
&  that  the  sum  of  ten  Dollars  be  placed  in  their 
hands  to  be  disposed  of  for  his  use  as  he  may  be 
found  worthy.  The  following  Resolution  was  moved 
and  seconded  to  become  one  of  the  Sections  of  our 
by-laws— to  wit— Resolved— that  no  Brother  be  passed 
or  Raised  before  he  be  proved  to  be  perfect  in  the 
Degree  or  Degrees  of  which  he  may  then  be  in  the 
Lodge  Excepting  however  who  may  be  entered  by 
Dispensation— Ordered— that  the  said  Resolution  lie 
over  for  consideration  of  the  Lodge. 

February  12,  :Z758.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  29 
members  &  12  Visitors.  3  Crafted.  "Resolved  That 
all  monies  actually  received  into  the  Treasury  of  this 
Lodge  shall  be  appropriated  in  manner  following  to 
wit,  one  fifth  thereof  to  remain  as  a  fund  to  obtain 
a  permanent  or  other  place  of  holding  this  Lodge  when 
necessary,  one  fifth  to  relieve  distressed  brethem, 
and  the  other  three  fifths  to  defray  the  expenses  of 
refreshments  and  other  expenses  of  the  Lodge." 

A  printed  Communication  was  received  from  the 
Secr^.  of  the  G.  L.  transmitting  a  list  of  the  Grand 

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officers  Elect,  a  list  of  warrants  for  holding  Lodges 
issued,  and  a  list  of  Expulsions  and  Rejections  lately 
made  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  which  Communication  was 
read  for  the  information  of  this  Lodge. 

February  15,  i75<9.— Adjourned  Lodge.  3  p.  m. 
Present  10  members  &  3  Visitors     1  Raised. 

February  26,  i75(S.— Adjourned  Lodge.  6  p.  m. 
Present  14  members,  A  Communication  from  the 
Grand  Committee  of  Charity  was  received  and  read 
respecting  the  utility  of  a  subscription  to  the  Dis- 
pensatory and  recommending  the  sum  of  5  Guineas 
to  be  subscribed  by  this  Lodge  in  order  to  secure  the 
benefit  of  that  Institution  for  any  Member  or  other 
Brother  who  may  stand  in  need  thereof  whereupon 
the  Lodge  having  taken  the  same  into  consideration 
came  to  the  following  Resolution,  Resolved  That  the 
sum  of  Ten  Guineas  instead  of  Five  Guineas  be  sub- 
scribed by  this  Lodge  to  purchase  the  right  of  send- 
ing two  patients  to  the  Dispensary  and  that  the  same 
be  paid  to  the  Grand  Treasurer  to  be  applied  as  laid 
down  in  the  foregoing  application." 

A  Petition  from  Heckly  Faulkner  the  widow  of 
a  Deceased  Brother  praying  relief  was  read— where- 
upon Resolved  that  the  Standing  Committee  be  in- 
vested with  the  Power  of  Granting  her  ten  Dollars 
if  they  may  see  her  Situation  require  it. 

2  Expelled  for  non  pay*  dues. 

March  12,  1755.— Stated  Lodge.     Present  23  mem- 

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bers  and  17  Visitors.     4  Expelled  for  non  pay'  dues. 

March  22,  i7P<S.— Extra  Lodge  2  0 'Clock  P.  M. 
Present  6  members    1  approved,  1  Entered    1  Crafted. 

A  Dispensation  from  the  R.  W.  G.  Master  J.  Bayard 
Smith  to  enter  pass  and  raise  Joshua  Bradford 
Mariner  to  the  Sublime  Degree  of  a  Master  Mason 
—having  been  read  and  approved  of  by  the  lodge— 
Joshua  Bradford  was  Initiated  into  the  first  Step  of 
Masonry— The  Entered  Apprentice  Lodge  was  closed 
and  the  Fellow  Crafts  opened.  B'".  Joshua  Bradford 
was  passed  to  the  Degree  of  a  Fellow  Craft. 

Friday,  March  23,  i758.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 6  members  1  Eaised  1  withdrawn  on  Certificate. 

April  9,  :Z758.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  members 
&  11  Visitors.     1  Application        1  Eaised 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Duty  to 
wait  on  B^  Fisher  and  ascertain  his  reason  for  not 
Dischargeing  his  account— Reported,  that  the  indis- 
position of  B"".  Jerimia  Fisher  has  of  late  prevented 
him  from  attending,  but  that  as  soon  as  a  return  of 
health  would  permit  he  would  come  forward  and  give 
satisfaction  to  the  Lodge.  On  motion  Resolved  that 
the  further  Consideration  of  the  Said  report  be 
postponed  for  the  space  of  two  months. 

May  14,  ^755.- Stated  Lodge.  Present  23  members 
&  7  Visitors.     1  Approved     2  Entered     1  Crafted 

A  Petition  from  Jno  Hoy  an  Infirm  and  Distressed 
Brother  praying  relief  was  read  and  on  motion— The 
Sum  of  ten  Dollars  were  granted  him. 

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Thursday,  May  17,  1798.— 2>  p.  m.  adjourned  Lodge 
Present  8  members  &  1  Visitor.     1  Raised 

June  11,  i75(9.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers &  7  Visitors.  Election  David  Irving  W.  M.— 
Eobert  Pullen,  S.  W.-Jno  Boyd,  J.  W.-Edward 
Robinson,  Secty.— John  Cope,  Treas"".— James  Craw- 
ford, S.  D.— Casper  Graaf,  J.  D.— John  Wheelan, 
Outside  and  Felix  McCarthy  Inside  Tyler,  Bros 
Joseph  Mansfield  and  Joseph  Gatty,  Stewards.  4 
withdrawals 

A  Petition  from  John  Pinchion  a  distressed  Brother 
praying  relief  was  read,  and  on  Motion  Resolved  That 
B''.  D.  Irvin,  Jn°  Hepler  &  Jn"  Phillips  be  appointed 
a  Committee  to  enquire  into  the  Character  and  merits 
of  his  Situation  &  be  empowered  to  grant  him  Six 
Dollars  if  found  worthy  of  relief.  A  Petition  from 
Samuel  Gartley  a  Distressed  brother  praying  relief 
was  read  &  on  Motion  Resolved,  That  B^  David 
Irving,  John  Hepler  &  John  Phillips  be  the  Committee 
to  enquire  into  his  Situation  and  Grant  him  such  relief 
not  exceeding  Six  Dollars  as  he  might  be  found  de- 
serving of.  B^  Praise  Wadman  applied  for  leave  to 
withdraw  from  the  Lodge  and  receive  a  Certificate— 
the  same  was  Granted  him. 

Thursday,  June  14, 1798.— 3  OClock  P  M  adjourned 
Lodge.      Present  8  members      Officers  Installed. 

July  9,  i 755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  14  members 
&  2  Visitors.     Bal  in  Treas''  hands  $190.19    1  Crafted 

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The  W.  Master  from  the  Committee  who  were  ap- 
pointed to  enquire  into  the  Situation  of  John  Pinchion 
&  Samuel  Gartley  Distressed  Brethren  Reported— 
that  the  Committee  had  found  B""  John  Pinchion  de- 
serving of  the  gi'atuity  granted  him  which  was  accord- 
ingly paid  him  for  his  relief.  And  that  on  enquiry 
they  found  B^  Sam'.  Gartley  not  worthy  of  relief, 
which  was  not  therefore  allowed  him.  A  letter  from 
B^  Jacob  Auld  addressed  to  the  lodge,  stating  in  the 
manner  in  which  he  had  distributed  the  monies 
Granted  him  for  the  relief  of  the  Orphan  Children  of 
our  Late  Brother  Laurence  Justice  was  read  for  the 
information  of  the  Lodge.  A  Letter  of  Complaint 
was  lodged  by  B^  Michal  Kene  against  John  Boyd 
a  Member  of  this  lodge— and— on  Motion— Resolved 
That  the  same  be  referred  to  the  Committee  of 
Greveances.  The  W.  Master  having  called  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Lodge  to  the  distressed  Situation  of  B^ 
John  Barry  and  his  family.  On  Motion  Resolved 
that  the  Standing  Committee  be  and  they  are  hereby 
authorized  to  draw  upon  the  Treasurer  for  the  sum 
of  fifteen  Dollars  for  the  relief  of  the  said  Brother 
and  his  family. 

August  13,  i75S.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  8  mem- 
bers Opened  in  due  form  but  too  few  members 
attended  on  account  of  the  prevailing  epidemic  (yel- 
low Fever)  it  was  thought  proper  to  adjourn  (which 
was  agreed  to)  until  it  ceased.  Lodge  closed  at  9 
O'clock 

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November  12,  1758.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  14 
members  and  6  Visitors.  1  Raised  A  Motion  made 
by  Bro  Boyd  and  seconded  by  Bro  Harman  that  the 
dues  for  the  two  last  stated  nights  be  allowed  by  the 
Lodge  on  account  of  the  prevailing  fever  which  was 
agreed  to. 

December  10,  i75<9.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  15 
members  &  10  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M.  Bayard 
Smith  2  withdrew  on  Certificate  Election,  David 
Irwin  W.  M.— Robert  Pullen  S.  W.— Darby  McDonach 
J.  W.— John  Phillips,  Secty— John  Cope,  Treas"— 
''The  W  M  presented  to  the  Lodge  a  print  of  Solo- 
mon's Temple  as  a  Present  from  Bro  John  Patton 
which  was  received  by  the  Lodge  and  the  W  M  & 
Bro  Jno  Cope  agreed  to  have  it  framed."^ 

On  Motion  made  &  seconded  It  was  agreed  that 
fifteen  Dollars  be  granted  to  each  of  the  widows  of 
our  late  members;  B".  Edward  Robinson  &  John 
Wheelan,  and  that  the  Standing  Committee  do  draw 
on  the  Treasurer  for  same. 

Wednesday,  December  26,  1755.— Adjourned  Lodge 
Present  9  members  &  1  Visitor.     Officers  installed. 

January  14, 1755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers &  8  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M  Bayard 
Smith  "The  W.  M.  nominated  James  Crawford  as 
S.  Deacon.  The  S.  Warden  nominated  Casper  Graaf 
as    Junior    Deacon,    which    the    Lodge    agreed    to." 

°  This  painting  is  now  in  the  Museum  of  the  Grand  Lodge  Library. 

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"Bros  John  Able  and  Joseph  Russel  were  nominated 
for  Stewards  for  the  ensuing  Six  Months  which  the 
Lodge  agreed  to."  "The  Lodge  adjourned  till  the 
4th  Monday  in  the  Month. ' ' 

A  Petition  from  Mary  Gatty  widow  of  Joseph  Gatty 
late  member  of  this  lodge  was  presented  and  read, 
and  ten  Dollars  was  granted  for  her  relief.  The  W. 
Master  informed  the  lodge  that  he  had  drawn  on  the 
Treasurer  for  Eight  Dollars  during  the  sickness  for 
the  widow  of  B^  Wheelen— having  slipt  his  memory 
when  the  lodge  granted  her  fifteen,  he  therefore  re- 
tained that  Eight  Dollars  and  now  submits  it  to  you 
the  Lodge  whether  it  shall  be  allowed  or  not.  The 
Lodge  determined  that  it  should  be  given  with  two 
Dollars  Extra  to  the  widow  of  B"".  Gatty. 

Monday,  January  28,  i?'^^.— Adjourned  Lodge. 
Present  10  members  &  1  Visitor.  1  Application  Bal 
$83.46  "Bro  John  Phillips  petitioned  the  Lodge  to 
grant  him  leave  to  pass  the  Chair  in  order  to  enable 
him  to  work  on  to  the  Arch,  leave  was  granted  him 
accordingly  by  the  Lodge" 

February  11,  17PP.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23 
members  &  12  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M.  B.  Smith 
-D.  G.  M.  Israel  Israel,-D.  G.  J.  W  Bro  Patton  & 
G.  Secty  G.  A.  Baker.  2  approvals,  2  Entered.  Grand 
Visitation.  The  Grd  Sect'y  appointed  to  examine 
the  Books  of  this  Lodge  Reported  to  the  R.  W.  G.  M, 
that  they  were  kept  in   a   regular   and   satisfactory 

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manner  and  that  they  contained  nothing  contradictory 
to  the  true  spirit  of  Masonry.  The  B.  W.  D.  G.  M. 
in  behalf  of  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  Returned  his  sincere 
thanks  to  Lodge  No  2  for  their  steady  perseverance 
in  their  labour,  and  reasserted  his  satisfaction  of 
their  proceedings  and  hoped  that  they  would  continue 
to  work  on  in  the  same  trait  without  any  deviation." 

February  25,  i755.— Lecture  Lodge.  Present  17 
members  &  4  Visitors.  1  Raised  "A  Dispensation 
from  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  to  pass  John  Phillips  to  the 
Chair  was  read  and  the  sense  of  the  Lodge  being 
taken  it  was  agreed  to,  Bro  Phillips  was  passed 
agreeable  to  the  above  dispensation" 

Resolved  That  no  person  or  persons  will  be  intitled 
to  receive  any  benefit  arising  from  the  funds  of  this 
Lodge,  if  they  are  resident  living  within  three  miles 
of  this  City ;  unless  they  belong  to  some  regular  Lodge. 

March  11,  i755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors.     2  Applications     2  Crafted 

April  8, 1755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17  members 
&  6  Visitors.     2  Approved     2  Entered 

April  22,  1755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  7 
members     1  Application     1  Crafted     2  Raised 

May  13,  1755.- Stated  Lodge.  Present  15  members 
&  8  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M. 

Visitors:— R.  W.  G.  Master,  B'"  Keyser  No.  72,  B^ 
Young  No.  13,  B""  Tripele,  Richard  Burman  No.  4, 
N.  Y.,  Andrew  Vanderslice  No.  72,  Isaac  Todd  No.  1 
St  Jn°.  Rhode  Island,  Jn°.  Wright  No.  28  Liverpool. 

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11  Exp*^  for  non  pyt  of  dues  Bro  Thos  Marshall 
Petitioned  the  Lodge  to  recommend  him  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  for  a  dispensation  to  pass  the  Chair  in  order 
to  be  further  advanced  in  Masonry  which  the  Lodge 
agreed  to. 

May  28,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  10  mem- 
bers &  10  Visitors.  2  Application  1  Crafted  1  With- 
drawn 

On  Motion  made  &  seconded  it  was  agreed  by  the 
Lodge  that  ten  Dollars  be  given  to  the  widow  of  B"" 
Eobinson  a  deceased  member  of  this  Lodge.  Eesolved 
that  one  of  the  Brethren  who  are  appointed  as  Guard- 
ians to  instruct  a  new  initiated  Brother ;  shall,  if  either 
of  them  be  present  be  the  examiner  before  the  Lodge. 

Bro  Elijah  Bartliss  was  examined  before  the  Lodge 
by  the  W  M  and  found  worthy  to  be  passed. 

June  10,  i755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  24  mem- 
bers &  6  Visitors.  Election,  Jno  Kessler  W.  M.— 
Joseph  Burden  S.  W.— Casper  Graaf  J.  W.— John 
Cope  Treas""— John  Phillips  Secty— Thos  Marshall, 
S.  D.— Charles  Hassels,  J.  D.— Adam  Duey  and  John 
Ostheine  Stewards,  1  Withdraws. 

Friday,  June  14,  :Z75>5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  2  pm. 
Present  8  members  1  Raised  Officers  Installed. 
Bro  Thomas  Marshall  Passed  to  Chair. 

Monday,  June  24,  i7PP.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 6  members,  ''The  Lodge  proceeded  to  Lecture" 
and  received  the  benefit  of  a  first,  second  and  third 
Lecture  from  the  W  M.  John  Kessler. 

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July  8,  1799.— ^isiiedi  Lodge.  Present  17  members 
&  5  Visitors.     1  Approved     1  Raised 

*'A  letter  from  the  G.  S.  inclosing  a  plan  submitted 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  for  raising  by  subscription  $6000. 
—for  building  or  procuring  a  permanent  place  for  the 
Grand  Lodge  and  others,  and  requiring  the  state  of 
the  funds  of  this  Lodge  and  what  the  Lodge  would  be 
willing  to  subscribe,"  ordered  to  lie  over  for  consid- 
eration ''The  Secretary  was  ordered  to  transmit  to 
the  Grand  Secretary  the  state  of  the  funds  of  this 
Lodge."  "A  Motion  was  made  and  seconded  that 
there  be  no  more  refreshments  procured  for  the  re- 
mainder of  this  six  months  which  was  agreed  to." 
Steward  and  Tyler's  Bill  $10.87 

Monday,  July  22,  i7P5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 9  members  and  1  Visitor  viz  Bro  Schneider  of 
No  72     Tyler  Bill  $1.67 

The  committee  to  whom  was  reffered  the  petition 
of  the  widow  Jourdan— Eesolved,  that  they  have  made 
the  strictest  enquiry  and  find  that  she  is  not  in  want 
at  present,  and  therefore  we  have  with  held  the  dona- 
tion granted  her  by  the  lodge  untill  another  time.  A 
motion  was  made  for  to  adjourn  the  lodge  for  the 
space  of  two  Months;  after  some  discussion  it  was 
order  to  lie  over  for  further  consideration  till  the  next 
Stated  night. 

August  12,  J!755.— Present  12  members  &  6  Visitors. 
1  Application 

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"On  Motion  made  and  seconded  a  Committee  was 
appointed  to  confer  with  the  Committee  of  different 
Lodges  on  a  suitable  place  for  meeting  after  we  leave 
this  and  a  report  to  be  made  on  the  next  stated  night 
Committee,  W  M  Jno  Kessler,  Jno  Phillips  Jno  Cope 
Joseph  Burden  and  Henry  Wistar. 

"A  Motion  was  made  and  seconded  That  the  Re- 
solve passed  at  the  last  stated  Meeting  be  reconsid- 
ered, viz  That  no  refreshments  be  had  for  the  en- 
suing six  months,  on  the  reconsideration  of  the  same 
it  was  carried  that  the  refreshments  be  continued  as 
usual. ' ' 

"Resolved  that  one  third  of  the  Initiation  fees 
be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Grand  Treasurer  half 
yearly  for  the  Express  purpose  of  Establishing  a  fund 
for  the  building  of  a  Grand  Lodge.  Ordered  to  lie 
over  for  Consideration." 

"A  motion  was  made  and  seconded  That  the  Tyler 
be  allowed  One  Dollar  and  a  half  for  each  Tyling 
from  this  date."     Stewards  &  Tylers  Bill  $5.35 

Note.— No  Lodge  held  in  September  owing  to  the 
Yellow  Fever. 

October  14,  1799.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  6  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors.  "There  not  being  a  sufficient 
number  of  members  present  no  business  was  trans- 
acted. ' ' 

October  28,  J755.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  18  mem- 
bers &  8  Visitors.     1  Application. 

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On  motion  made  and  Seconded  it  was  agreed  to 
exonerate  the  Members  for  two  nights  dues,  on  account 
of  the  prevailing  Epidemic. 

November  11,  J7i>P.— Stated  Lodge. 

The  Secretary  was  ordered  to  provide  12  Books  of 
the  Constitution  for  the  use  of  the  Lodge. 

December  9,  1799. Stated  Lodge.  Present  21 
Members  &  13  Visitors.  Election  Jno  Phillips  W.  M. 
—Jos  Burden,  S.  W.— Robert  Pullen,  J.  W.— Jno 
Cope,  Treas— Thos  Marshall  Sect'y,— Chas  Hassels 
S.  D,-C.  Nield-J.  D.-Buddy  &  Crishire  Stewards 
2  withdrawals. 

For  some  reason  the  Society  of  Free  Quakers  re- 
fused to  renew  the  lease  of  their  meeting  house  at  the 
southwest  corner  of  Fifth  and  Arch  Streets  to  the 
Masonic  Fraternity.  At  the  Quarterly  Communica- 
tion held  June  3,  1799: 

Bro  Milnor,  of  the  committee  appointed  to  inquire  what 
place  may  be  obtained  for  the  future  meetings  of  this  Grand 
Lodge  after  their  present  lease  expires,  reported  that  the 
room  wherein  this  G.  L.  now  meet  cannot  be  had  after  the 
expiration  of  the  said  lease.  Whereupon,  on  motion  made 
and  seconded,  agreed  that  the  Grand  Secretary  write  to  all 
the  Lodges  under  this  jurisdiction  requesting  them  to  com- 
municate as  expeditiously  as  possible  what  sums  of  money 
they  will  respectively  contribute  towards  the  purchase  or 
erecting  a  building  for  the  accommodation  of  this  Grand 
Lodge  and  the  Subordinate  Lodges  in  this  City. 

Owing  to  a  re-occurrence  of  an  epidemic  of  yellow 

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fever  during  the  summer  it  was  not  until  November 
13  1799  that  a  report  of  this  Committee  was  made 
at  an  Extra  Communication  called  for  this  purpose. 

The  R.  W.  Grand  Master  presented  a  copy  of  a 
petition  from  the  E.  W.  Grand  Officers  and  the  Com- 
mittee appointed  to  procure  a  place  for  the  future 
meetings  of  this  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge  and  the 
Subordinate  Lodges  in  this  city,  to  his  Excellency, 
Thomas  Mifflin,  Esq.,  Governor  of  this  Common- 
wealth, praying  that  his  Excellency  would  be  pleased 
to  grant  permission  for  holding  our  future  meetings 
in  some  of  the  rooms  of  the  State  House,  which  was 
read,  and  is  in  the  words  following: 

To  His  Excellency,  Thomas  Mifflin,  Governor  of  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Pennsylvania:  The  petition  of  the  subscribers, 
present  officers  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  re- 
spectfully sheweth  that  the  Grand  Lodge  has  for  several 
years  past  occupied  a  room  illy  adapted  for  the  purposes  of 
their  meetings,  which  they  had  taken  in  expectation  only  that 
by  this  time  they  would  have  been  able  to  procure  for  them- 
selves permanent  accommodations,  but  owing  to  their  extra- 
ordinary charitable  exertions,  which  have  been  rendered 
peculiarly  burdensome  by  the  frequent  visitations  which  have 
afflicted  the  city,  they  have  found  themselves  unable  to  effect 
so  desirable  an  object.  That  their  lease  is  expired,  and  the 
room  wanted  by  the  proprietors  for  other  uses.  Your  peti- 
tioners understanding  that  the  rooms  in  the  State  House  are 
at  present  unoccupied  and  are  likely  to  remain  so  for  a  con- 
siderable time,  are  induced  to  request  the  Gr^.  Lodge  may 
be  indulged  with  the  use  of  the  Senate  Chamber  or  such  other 

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apartments  on  the  same  floor  as  your  Excellency  may  see 
fit;  and  the  Grand  Lodge  will  hold  themselves  pledged,  and 
do  engage,  at  any  time  whenever  they  shall  be  so  required, 
to  evacuate  and  redeliver  the  premises  unimpaired  in  the 
same  order  in  which  they  shall  receive  them. 

(Signed),       J.  B.  Smith,  G.  M. 

Israel  Israel,  D.  G.  M. 
James  Milnor,  S.  G.  W, 
Charles  Patton,  J.  G.  W. 
John  Smith, 
Chairman  of  Committee  for 
Nov.  4,  1799.  procuring  Booms,  etc. 

The  E.  W.  G.  M.  then  informed  this  Grand  Lodge 
that  said  petition  had  been  presented  to  His  Excel- 
lency the  Governor,  who  had  been  pleased  to  grant 
the  Secretaries'  Chamber  in  the  State  House  for  that 
purpose  until  called  for.  On  motion  made  and  sec- 
onded, this  Grand  Lodge  concur  in  the  application 
so  made  to  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  return 
their  warmest  thanks  to  His  Excellency  for  the  grant 
he  has  been  pleased  to  make  them,  and  direct  that 
Bro.  Grand  Secretary  respectfully  communicate  the 
same  to  His  Excellency  the  Governor. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded,  the  D.  G.  M.  Israel 
Israel  and  Bro.  John  Smith,  Jr.,  Coyle,  Griffiths,  and 
Andrew  Nilson,  were  appointed  a  committee  to  pre- 
pare the  rooms  in  the  State  House  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  this  Grand  Lodge,  and  to  remove  all  the  furni- 
ture now  in  this  room  there  when  ready,  and  to  have 

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such  repairs  done  to  the  old  and  procure  such  new 
furniture  as  shall  appear  to  be  necessary. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded,  the  said  committee 
were  authorized  to  leave  this  room  in  the  order  we 
receive  the  same,  or  in  such  state  as  they  shall  agree 
on  with  the  owners  of  this  building. 

December  23,  i755.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  12 
members  &  7  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M.  J.  B. 
Smith  Officers  Installed.  1  Withdrawn  1  Entered. 
"A  recommendation  from  the  R.  W.  G.  M.,  that  the 
Officers  of  the  subordinate  Lodges  and  Members  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  do  appear  in  proper  mourning  at 
the  Grand  Communication  on  St  John's  Day,  that  the 
Jewels  and  Emblems  on  the  Aprons  be  covered  with 
black  in  Memory  of  our  Illustrious  Brother  Geo 
Washington. ' ' 

The  close  of  the  eighteenth  century  was  an  appre- 
hensive one  for  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  as  it  ceased 
at  the  same  time  to  be  the  capital  of  both  the  United 
States  and  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  One  of  the 
chief  arguments  made  was  that  of  late  "a  disease 
called  the  yellow  fever  had  raged  at  particular 
periods,  so  as  to  render  it  dangerous  for  the  members 
of  the  Legislatures  to  meet. ' ' 

Then  again  it  was  during  the  night  of  the  seven- 
teenth of  December,  when  the  news  was  received  of 
the  death  of  General  Washington  at  Mount  Vernon 
three  days  before. 

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Congress  assembled  upon  the  following  morning, 
and  ordered  an  official  memorial  service  to  be  held  on 
Thursday,  December  26,  1799,  in  Zion  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church  at  the  southeast  comer  of  Fourth 
and  Cherry  Streets,  in  which  the  Masonic  Fraternity 
was  invited  to  take  a  prominent  position  in  the  Solemn 
Service. 

The  time  being  short,  written  special  notices  were 
were  sent  out  to  the  members  of  the  Grand  Lodge  by 
the  Grand  Secretary,  George  A.  Baker,  one  of  which 
has  come  down  to  us  and  is  reproduced  in  facsimile. 

Sir  &  Brother 

The  death  of  General  George  Washington  has  excited  a 
general  public  interestedness  in  which  Masons  cannot  but 
participate.  He  was  an  illustrious  Brother.  It  is  recom- 
mended that  the  officers  &  representatives  of  Lodges  appear 
on  next  St  John's  day  in  communication  with  the  emblem  of 
their  office  in  black  on  their  aprons. 

By  Order  of  the  R  AA^  Grand  Master 

George  A.  Baker 
Dec"".  23  1799  Gramd  Secretary. 

In  pursuance  to  this  Notice  an  Extra  Grand  Com- 
munication was  held  on  December  26,  1799,  when 

A  sufficient  Number  of  Lodges  being  represented,  Grand 
Lodge  was  opened  in  Ample  Form. 

The  present  Communication  being  held  by  Virtue  of  a 
special  Summons  from  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  invitation  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangement 
of  Congress  to  attend  the  delivery  of  a  Funeral  Oration  in 

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Itbe  Close  of  tbe  J6igbteentb  Century 

Honour  of  the  late  Lieutenant  General  George  Washington, 
as  directed  by  Order  of  Congress,  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master 
opened  the  business  of  the  meeting  in  an  address  to  the  Grand 
Lodge. 

In  conclusion  of  which  he  stated :  "  I  detain  you  no  longer. 
The  government  of  our  country  has  this  day  honourably 
distinguished  us  as  among  the  chief  morners  of  Washington — 
its  Friend,  its  Protector,  and  its  Ornament.  The  destined 
hour  has  come  and  we  move  to  the  summons."* 

Whereupon,  it  was  unanimously  Resolved,  That  this  Grand 
Lodge  are  deeply  and  sincerely  afSicted  with  the  Melancholy 
event  which  has  accasioned  this  Communication,  and  will 
immediately  proceed  to  join  in  the  Honours  about  to  be  shewn 
to  the  Memory  of  our  Illustrious  deceased  Brother. 

Also,  That  this  Grand  Lodge  will  bear  any  Expenses  which 
shall  be  incurred  on  this  occasion. 

The  R.  W.  Grand  Master  then  appointed  Bro"".  Proctor, 
Master  of  Ceremonies  for  the  day.     Grand  Lodge  was  closed. 

The  Brethren  then  formed  in  due  Order  in  the  Grand 
Lodge  Room,  and  moving  from  thence  joined  in  the  general 
procession,  which  formed  in  the  middle  of  Chestnut  Street, 
right  on  Sixth.  The  route  was  down  Fifth  to  Walnut  Street, 
down  Walnut  to  Fourth  and  up  Fourth  to  Zion  German 
Lutheran  Church.  A  bier  covered  with  a  pall  was  carried 
in  the  procession  by  six  sergeants  and  was  deposited  in  front 
of  the  altar  beneath  the  pulpit.  An  Anthem,  Monody  and 
dirge  composed  for  the  occasion  was  sung  by  a  choir,  the 
leading  voices  in  which  were  artists  from  the  Theatre  in 
Chestnut  Street,  the  original  music  of  which  is  now  in  the 
Library  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania.      The  funeral 

•  Address  in  full — Reprint  of  Minutes  Grand  Lodge  of  F.  &  A.  M. 
of  Pennsylvania,  Vol.  I.,  pp.  379  et  seq. 

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service  was  pronounced  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  White,  after 
which  Gen.  Henry  Lee,  of  Virginia,  delivered  the  address  in 
accordance  with  the  resolution  of  Congress,  wherein  Bro. 
Washington  was  characterized  as  being  "First  in  war,  first 
in  Peace,  and  first  in  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen,"  which 
being  ended  the  Masonic  Procession  returned  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  room. 

The  following  Monody  was  composed  for  and  sung 
at  the  official  funeral  service,  held  at  the  German 
Lutheran  Zion  Church.  It  was  dedicated  to  the 
Senate  of  the  United  States.  A  copy  of  the  original 
music  is  preserved  in  the  Grand  Lodge  Library. 

1 
Sad  are  the  tidings  rumuour  tells 

A  grateful  people  mourn  his  end 
Amidst  the  brave  and  just  he  dwells 
A  nations  father  and  its  friend 

2 

With  honor  crown 'd  mature  in  age 

He  fell  the  wonder  of  mankind 
Laden  with  laurels  left  the  stage 

Nor  leaves  alas !  his  like  behind 

3 

Seated  in  bliss  supreme  on  high 

O  spirit  dear  attend  our  pray  'r 
Our  guardian  angel  still  be  nigh 

Make  thy  lov'd  land  thy  heav'nly  care 


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CHAPTER  XIX. 

Independence  Hall,  1800-1802. 
T  the  beginning  of  the  new  century 
Philadelphia  was  once  again  a  compara- 
tively quiet  city.  The  glamor  of  being 
the  Capital  City  of  the  United  States 
and  State  of  Pennsylvania  had  passed. 
It  is  however  true  that  it  was  still  the  commercial 
metropolis  of  the  country,  and  boasted  of  the  largest 
population  of  any  city  on  the  Atlantic  Seaboard. 

Masonically  the  horizon  seemed  bright  and  clear 
upon  every  point  except  as  to  a  permanent  meeting 
place  for  the  Grand  and  Subordinate  Lodges.  The 
occupation  of  Independence  Hall  was  at  the  best  only 
a  temporary  one,  subject  to  the  orders  of  the  civil 
authorities.  In  view  of  these  conditions  strenuous 
efforts  were  made  by  the  Grand  Lodge  looking  toward 
a  permanent  home.  The  lot  at  the  southwest  corner 
of  Twelfth  and  Walnut  Streets  being  deemed  too 
far  out  of  town  a  building  on  the  south  side  of 
Filbert  Street  above  Eighth  Street  was  purchased, 
soon  to  be  abandoned  for  the  Gothic  Hall  built  on 
Chestnut   Street,    north    side,    between    Seventh    and 

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Eighth  Street.  How  this  was  later  destroyed  by  fire, 
and  what  followed  will  be  fully  told  in  the  following 
chapters. 

At  the  veiy  beginning  of  the  new  century  a  solemn 
Masonic  celebration  took  place  in  memory  of  our 
departed  brother  Washington. 

This  was  an  open  Lodge  of  Sorrow  in  memory  of 
our  late  Brother  General  Washington,  held  on  Wed- 
nesday, January  1,  by  the  French  Lodge  L'Amenite, 
No.  73,  at  their  Lodge  room  in  Abraham  Taylor's 
Alley,  a  small  thoroughfare  between  Second  and  Front 
Streets,  south  of  Chesnut,  now  called  Ionic  Street. 

Following  is  a  contemporary  account  of  the  cele- 
bration : 

On  Wednesday  last  [January  1,  1800],  the  French  Lodge 
le  Amenite,  No.  73  of  the  Pennsylvania  jurisdiction,  exhibited 
a  truly  interesting  evidence  of  their  veneration  for  the  char- 
acter of  General  Washington,  which  is  not  confined  to  country 
or  language.  Having  decreed  that  an  oration  should  be 
delivered  on  the  occasion  of  his  death,  the  whole  Lodge  as- 
sembled. The  room  was  covered  with  sable  hangings,  in  a 
manner  dignified  as  the  occasion,  truly  masonic  in  its  forms 
and  its  effects,  not  to  be  described.  In  the  center  was  a 
superb  Bier,  raised  about  ten  feet,  on  a  platform  of  five  steps, 
with  the  masonic  and  military  bearings  of  the  deceased,  ele- 
gantly illuminated  and  supporting  a  number  of  urns;  over 
this,  from  the  ceiling,  were  suspended  sable  festoons,  with 
appropriate  emblems  and  decorations.  The  number  of  lights, 
we  understand,  were  about  300. 

Brother  Joseph  de  la  Grange,  the  master  of  the  Lodge,  and 
officers  having  taken  their  seats,  the  grand  officers  and  the 

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ladies  of  the  brethren,  who  had  been  invited,  were  conducted 
to  their  places. — The  members  of  the  Lodge,  and  visiting 
brethren,  then  took  their  seats.  The  room  was  crowded,  but 
without  confusion.  A  solemn  silence  of  some  minutes  evinced 
the  effect  of  the  scene,  and  the  feelings  of  the  heart.  At 
length  the  W.  Master  announced  from  the  East  that  the 
illustrious  Brother  Washington  is  dead! — the  South  and  West 
responded  the  illustrious  Brother  Washington  is  dead!  The 
attention  of  the  company  was  invited  to  an  eulogium  of 
affection  &  veneration  to  his  memory.  Brother  J.  Chaudron, 
orator  of  the  Lodge,  then  addressed  from  the  heart  of  the 
speaker  to  the  hearts  of  the  hearers,  animated,  enlightened, 
and  dignified  reflections,  on  the  character  and  conduct  of 
General  Washington,  and  their  happy  effects.  The  audience 
were  affected,  and  the  speaker  being  interrupted  by  their  and 
his  own  tears,  was  impressed  with  the  magnitude  of  the 
subject. 

The  W.  Master  then,  in  a  respectful  and  emphatic  address 
to  the  Grand  Master  and  other  Grand  Officers,  and  American 
visitors,  stated  that  though  to  the  United  States  belonged  the 
peculiar  honor  of  having  produced  and  enjoyed  the  more 
immediate  advantages  of  this  great  character ;  yet,  that  Wash- 
ington had  been  born  for  the  benefit  of  mankind,  and  that 
other  nations  felt  a  lively  interest  in  paying  a  tribute  to  his 
name.  The  master  concluded  with  an  interesting  and  polite 
address  to  the  Ladies  present,  and  the  business  of  the  day  was 
declared  to  be  finished. 

The  Lodge  room  was  opened  during  the  afternoon,  for  the 
admission  of  strangers ;  and,  at  the  solicitation  of  many 
respectable  persons,  it  was  again  opened  for  the  admission 
of  genteel  characters  on  Saturday,  the  4th  inst.  from  10 
o'clock  a.  m.  to  4  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 

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D    U 


Frere    George     Washington, 

Pr&noncee    le  premier  Janvier   1800, 

DAMS    LA    LOGS     FRANCAISE 

L'A   M   E   N   I  T  fe: 


PAR 

Le    F.'.    SIMON    CHAUDRON, 
Orateur  de  la  liOge. 

« 
Pbiladelpbte  ; 

Chez  John  Ormrod,  No.  41,  Chesout-street 
180  0. 

Title  Page  of  French  Edition  of  Bbo.  Chaudron's  Oration. 


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ON    BROTHER 

GEORGE    WASHINGTON; 

DELIVERED 

'January  l5f,  1800, 

BEJORE    THE    FRENCH  LODGE   L'AMEMlTt. 

By  brother  SIMON  CHAUDRON. 


TRANSLATED   FROM   THfi    tREKCM 

By    SAMUEL     F.     BRADFORD. 


Pbiladelpbta : 

Peinteo  6y  Jeaa   OtwaoD,  No.  41,  CHEJUuT-STRetr. 

1800. 
Title  Page  of  English  Edition  of  Bro.  Chaudron's  Oration. 


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The  above  oration  and  addresses  were  printed  in 
both  French  and  English,  copies  of  which  were  sent 
to  Mrs.  Washington,  the  President  and  Vice-President, 
Governor  of  the  State  and  Foreign  Ambassadors, 
acknowledgments  from  whom  are  on  file  in  the 
Library  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  as  well 
as  of  the  various  editions  of  1800  and  1811. 

The  above  unique  Memorial  Service  of  Lodge  73— 
the  first  of  its  kind  in  America  of  which  we  have  any 
record— was  followed  by  the  Masonic  memorial  service 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Grand  Lodge  on  February 
22,  1800,  as  requested  by  Congress.  The  Library 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  is  fortunate  in  having  in  its 
collection  one  of  the  original  notices  sent  out  to  the 
members,  as  well  as  an  "Order  of  Procession."  Fac- 
similes of  both  are  here  reproduced. 

At  an  extra  Grand  Communication,  held  Monday, 
February  3,  1800 : 

The  R.  W.  Deputy  Grand  Master  informed  the  Brethren 
that  the  present  Communication  was  held  for  the  purpose 
laying  before  the  Brethren  a  certain  request  in  writing  from 
several  of  the  Masters  of  Lodges  held  in  this  City,  which  being 
presented,  was  read,  and  is  in  the  words  following: 

''We,  the  Subscribers,  Masters  of  Lodges  held  in  the  City 
of  Philadelphia,  under  the  Authority  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania,  beg  leave  to  request  that  the  R.  "W.  Grand 
Master  may  be  pleased  to  direct  the  Grand  Lodge  to  be  con- 
vened as  soon  as  conveniently  may  be,  in  Order  to  take  the 
sense  of  the  Grand  Lodge  whether  the  Brethren  will  walk  in 
procession  on  the  Twenty  Second  Day  of  February  next, 
being  the  Day  recommended  by  Congress  to  be  set  apart  as 

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a  Day  of  Mourning  for  the  Death  of  our  late  Brother  General 
George  Washington.     Philadelphia,  25'*^  January,  A.  L.  5800. 
"(Sign'd)  John  Phillips,  W.  M.         No.     2 

And^.  Nilson,  W.  M.  N".     9 

W".  Nelson,  W.  M.  N°.   71 

George  Springer  W.  M.     No.  52 
John  McElwee  No.  59 

G.  La  Grange  N°.  73." 

Whereupon,  in  Consideration  of  The  President  of  the 
United  States  and  Congress  having  recommended  to  the 
people  of  the  United  States  to  assemble  on  the  22^^.  day  of 
the  present  IMonth,  in  such  number  and  manner  as  may  be 
convenient,  publicly  to  testify  to  their  grief  for  the  Death 
of  General  George  Washington  by  suitable  eulogies,  orations, 
and  discourses,  or  by  public  prayers.  This  Grand  Lodge,  in 
compliance  with  the  said  recommendation,  and  in  Order  to 
testify  their  deep  affliction  for  the  loss  they  have  sustained 
by  the  removal  of  One  of  their  great  lights  from  among  them 
(the  deceased  having  been  a  worthy  member  of  their  Ancient 
and  Honourable  Fraternity),  Eesolved,  That  there  be  a 
Masonic  Procession  held  on  the  aforesaid  day,  to  wit,  the 
22°^  ins*.,  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  and  that  an  Oration 
suitable  to  the  Solemn  Occasion  be  then  delivered. 

A  Committee  consisting  of  the  Masters  of  the  different 
Lodges  held  in  this  City  was  then  appointed  to  make  such 
Arrangements  as  to  them  shall  appear  necessary  and  proper 
for  conducting  the  aforesaid  Procession. 

The  Committee  of  Arrangement  on  the  Occasion  of  the  late 
Procession  Honour  of  the  Memory  of  Our  late  Illustrious 
Brother  General  George  Washington  made  their  Eeport  which 
was  read  and  is  in  the  words  following,  to  wit : 

"To  the  Right  Worshipful  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsyl- 

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Grand  Lodge  of  Pennfylvania. 


Otiet  of  Proccflion  to  take  p'ace  the  aad  February  1 800,  in  Honour  of  the  Memory  of  General  Wafli- 
tngtoo,  2»  adopted  by  the  Committee  of  ar  angementi. 

he  Brethren  to  meet  at  the  Grand  Lodge  Room,  at  ti  o'clock,  A.  M.  Th<:  Proceffio  to  be  by 
Lodges,  the  different  Lodge  ranking  according  to  iieniority,  the  Junior  Lodge  ptecediog,  each  Lodjjc 
forming  one  DiwfioD,  in  the  following  order^, 

Tyler  with  drawn  «^word, 
£ntefd  apprentices,  two  and  two. 

Fellow  Crafts,  two  and  two, 

Mailer  Mafons,  two  and  two, 

Deacons  with  their  wands  cipt  with  fiWer. 

Secretary  and     reaiorer. 

Warden  . 

Faft  Maders,  two  and  tvo. 

Mailer, 


After  the  Subordinate  Lodges,  the  Grand  Lodge,  preceded  by  Mufie,  at  follows. 


MUSIC. 


Grand  Tyler  with  drawn  Sword, 
Twelve  Paft-Mafters,  two  and  two,  bearing  wands  tipt  with  Clver. 
Grand  Sword  Bearer,  with  drawn  Sword, 
Grand  Secretary  with  Scroll,  and  Grand  Treafurer. 

Grand  Wardens,  bearing  their  Columns. 

Three  Lights  extinguilhed,  borne  by  three  Pad  Mafters. 

Holy  Bible,  5U)uare  and  Compaf  ,  borne  by  a     aft  Mailer. 

Reverend  Divine,  fupported  by  two  Pad  Mafters. 

Grand  Mailer,  and  Deputy  Grand  Mailer. 

Grand  Purfuivant,  with  drawn  Sword. 

Four  Deacons  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  two  aud  two,  bearing  wands  tipt  with  gold. 

In  the  above  Order,  the  procellion  will  move  to  Zion  Church  in  Fourth  Street,  the  front  having  reach- 
ed the  Church  the  procellion  halt,  the  Brethren  face  inwards  and  open  their  rank  ,  the  Grind  Lodge 
move  forward  thiongh  the  ranks,  the  Brethren  clofe  from  the  rear,  and  follow  toe  Grand  Lodge  into 
the  Church. 

The  Procefllon  will  return  in  the  fame  Order  to  the  Grand  Lodge  Room. 

VtGting  and  (bjou  ning  Brethren,  to  join  the  Lodges,  from  whofe  Mailers  they  (hall  hare  obtained 

tickets  of  permidon  to  walk  in  procellion. 

1  ickets  Ggned  by  Brother  Baker,  to  admit  Citizens  into  the  Church,  will  be  delivered  to  the  Grand 
Officers  aad  Mailers  of  the  Lodges,  to  be  dillributed  among  their  Friends  gratis. 

Pobli&cd  by  Order  of  the  Comniitce  ot  Arrangcmeiui. 

GEORGE  A.  BAKER, 

Grand  Secretary, 

Facsimile  (reduced)  of  the  Order  of  Procession. 
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vania,  and  The  Committee  appointed  at  an  Extra  Grand 
Communication  of  the  said  R.  W,  Grand  Lodge,  held  on  the 
S""*^.  February  last,  to  make  the  necessary  and  proper  Arrange- 
ments for  a  Procession,  then  Resolved  to  be  held  on  the  22°*^ 
of  the  same  Month  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia  in  Honour 
of  the  Memory  of  their  late  Illustrious  Brother  General 
George  Washington  deceas  'd,  beg  leave  to  Report : 

That  in  compliance  with  the  Resolutions  of  the  R.  W.  Grand 
Lodge  Your  Committee  made  such  Arrangements  in  the 
Premises  as  to  them  appeared  proper  for  carrying  the  said 
Resolutions  into  effect.  That  having  so  made  the  necessary 
arrangements  they  notified  the  Brethren  desirous  of  joining 
in  procession  to  meet  at  the  G.  L.  Room  on  the  22°*^.  Febr^., 
being  Saturday,  at  11  o'clock,  a.  m. 

That  accordingly  the  Grand  Lodge  and  Brethren  met  in 
the  G.  L.  Room,  in  the  State  House  in  the  City  of  Philadel- 
phia, at  11  o'clock,  a.  m.  of  the  said  Day,  and  the  Brethren 
formed  by  Lodges  in  the  following  manner,  to  wit: 

Tyler  with  drawn  Sword,  Hilt  in  Mourning 

Enter 'd  Apprentices,  Two  and  Two. 

Fellow  Crafts,  Two  and  Two. 

Master  Masons,  Two  and  Two. 

Deacons  with  their  Wands  Tipt  with  Silver,  the  Tops  in 
Mourning. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Wardens. 

Past  Masters,  Two  and  Two. 

Master. 

The  Brethren  having  crape  on  their  Left  Arm  and  the 
Emblems  and  Insignia  covered  with  black,  agreeably  to  a 
Resolution  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  St.  John's  Day  last,  to 
continue  in  force  until  St.  John's  Day  next. 

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The  several  Lodges  being  thus  formed,  and  the  Grand 
Lodge  Organized  in  Ample  Form,  the  procession  moved 
from  the  Grand  Lodge  Room,  at  1  o'clock,  in  the  following 
order,  viz. : 

1.  Trumpeter,  with  Trumpet  in  Mourning. 

2.  The  French  Lodge  L'Amenite,  N°.  73,  Bro^  Joseph  E. 
G.  M.  De  La  Grange,  Esq"".,  W.  Master. 

3.  Philadelphia  Lodge,  N°.  72,  Bro"".  Christian  Sheetz,  Esq'., 
W.  Master 

4.  Orange  Lodge,  N°.  71,  Bro"".  William  Nelson,  W.  Master. 

5.  Concordia  Lodge,  No.  67,  Bro"".  Henry  Voight,  W.  Mas- 
ter, pro  Tem. 

6.  Washington  Lodge,  N".  59,  Bro'".  Robert  Jackson,  W. 
Master,  pro  Tem. 

(The  W.  Master,  Bro^  John  McElwee,  filling  his  office,  that 
of  R.  W.  Grand  Treasurer  in  the  Grand  Lodge.) 

This  Lodge,  named  after  the  deceased  Brother,  had  pre- 
pared for  the  occasion  and  carried  in  the  procession,  by  Four 
Members  of  the  Lodge,  on  a  Bier  covered  with  black  Cloth, 
an  elegant  Urn,  about  4  Feet  high,  Gilt  in  Burnish 'd  Gold, 
placed  on  a  White  Marble  Base  of  3  Steps,  inscribed  on  the 
Plinth,  "Washington  Lodge,  N°.  59,"  having  on  the  Top  an 
Eagle  Drooping,  Gilt,  in  like  manner.  From  his  Beak  was 
suspended  a  Shield,  Gilt,  with  the  following  inscription : 

' '  Washington  Lodge,  Honoured  by  the  Name,  let  us  emulate 
his  Virtues,  whose  loss  we  deplore. ' ' 

7.  Harmony  Lodge,  N°.  52,  Bro*".  George  Springer,  W. 
Master. 

8.  Lodge,  N".  19,  Bro^  Captain  John  Coyle,  W.  Master. 

9.  Lodge,  N°.  9,  Bro"".  Captain  Andrew  Nilson,  W.  Master 

10.  Lodge,  N°.  3,  Bro"".  Colonel  John  Baker,  W.  Master 
pro  Tem. 

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(The  Worshipful  Master,  Bro"".  Israel  Israel,  Esq"".,  filling 
his  office  in  the  Grand  Lodge,  that  of  R.  W.  Deputy  G.  M.) 

11.  Lodge  N°.  2,  Bro"".  John  Phillips,  W.  Master. 

12.  Band  of  Music,  Instruments  in  Mourning. 

13.  The  Grand  Lodge  then  followed  in  the  following  Order, 
viz. : 

Grand  Tyler,  with  drawn  Sword,  Hilt  in  Mourning. 

Twelve  Past  Masters,  Two  and  Two,  bearing  Wands  tipt 
with  Silver,  the  Tops  in  Mourning. 

Grand  Sword  Bearer,  with  drawn  Sword,  Hilt  in  Mourning. 

Grand  Secretary,  with  Scroll  in  Mourning  and  Grand 
Treasurer. 

Grand  Wardens,  bearing  their  Columns  in  Mourning. 

Three  Lights  Extinguished,  borne  by  Three  Past  Masters. 

Holy  Bible,  Square  and  Compass,  in  mourning,  borne  by 
a  Past  Master,  and  supported  by  Two  Past  Masters. 

The  Reverend  Docf.  Magaw,  supported  by  Two  Past 
Masters. 

The  R.  W.  Grand  Master  and  R.  W.  Deputy  Grand  Master. 

Grand  Pursuivant,  with  drawn  Sword,  Hilt  in  Mourning. 

Four  Deacons  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  Two  and  Two,  bearing 
Wands  Tipt  with  Gold,  the  Tops  in  Mourning. 

In  the  above  Order  the  Procession,  consisting  of  between 
300  and  400  Brethren,^  moved  along  Chestnut  Street  to  Third 
Street,  along  Third  Street  to  Mulberry  or  Arch  Street, 
along  Arch  Street  to  Fourth  Street,  and  along  Fourth  Street 
to  Zion  Church,  one  of  the  Churches  of  the  German  Lutheran 
Congregation,  the  Corporation  whereof  had  upon  applica- 
tion to  them  very  obligingly  granted  the  Use  of  the  said 
Church  for  the  Occasion. 


'The  Number  of  Brethren  in  the  procession  was  333,  thus  the 
truly  Masonic  3  times  3  occurring  accidentally. 

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llnJ)epent)ence  iball,  X800«*l802 

AN 

ORATION 

COMMEMORATIVE    OP 

THE  VIRTUES  AND  GREATNESS 

OF 

GENERAL      WASHINGTON ; 

PRONOUNCED    IN    THE 

GERMAN  LUTHERAN  CHURCH^ 
PHILADELPHIA  : 

BEFORE    THE 

igrantj  iotige  of  ^^ettttsplbanto, 

Om    the     TW«NTV-S»C0ND     pat    of     rtBRDAar,    EIClfTEttI     BCNO&ED. 

By  SAMUEL    MAGAW,  D.  D. 


Published  at  the  Request  of  the  Grand  Lodgt. 

"-•"i'iii'i'i"i'tlili?'f1"J.'.'L        I     III 


Pbtladelpbia  : 


PatKTK©  BV  J.  ORMROD,  No.  41,  CBESNUT^srtEET. 

1800. 

Title  Page  of  Bro.   Samuel  JVL^gaw's   Oration. 


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The  Front  of  the  Procession  having  reached  the  Church, 
the  Brethren  opened  their  Eanks  and  faced  inwards;  the 
Grand  Lodge,  with  the  Urn  in  Front,  moved  forward  through 
the  Ranks,  the  Brethren  closed  from  the  Rear  and  followed 
the  Grand  Lodge  into  the  Church,  where  a  Pathetic  and 
Elegant  Oration  was  delivered  by  the  Reverend  Docf.  Magaw. 
In  the  intervals  of  service  solemn  Funeral  Odes  in  the  German 
Language,  composed  for  the  Occasion  by  the  Reverend  Docf. 
Helmuth,  and  set  to  music  by  Mess""®.  Emrich  and  Weizaecker, 
were  sung  by  the  Singing  Society  of  the  aforesaid  Congrega- 
tion, accompanied  by  a  full  Orchestra,  under  the  direction 
of  Messrs  Emrich  and  Weizaecker. 

The  business  of  the  Day  being  finished  the  Procession,  with 
the  Urn  in  Front,  returned  in  inverse  Order  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  Room. 

The  whole  was  arranged  and  conducted  with  that  Order, 
simplicity  and  dignity,  which  was  suitable  to  the  impressive 
occasion,  and  which  the  Masons  of  Pennsylvania  have  always 
endeavored  to  cultivate. 

Several  Brethren  from  the  Neigboring  Lodges  came  to  the 
City  to  attend  the  Procession,  and  many  others  were  detained 
from  coming  as  they  were  engaged  in  rendering  similar 
tokens  of  regard  in  their  respective  Lodges 

Philadelphia,  3^^  March,  A.  L.  5800 

Attest:  Israel  Israel,  Chairman. 

George  A.  Baker 
Secretary. 

Brother  Magaw 's  masterful  sermon  was  subse- 
quently printed,  a  copy  of  which  is  in  the  Grand 
Lodge  Library. 

January  13,  i8(?i?.— Stated  Lodge.    Present  16  mem- 

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bers  &  3  Visitors.  It  was  agreed  unanimously  that 
the  Fourth  Monday  in  each  Month  shall  be  reserved 
for  a  Lecture  Night. 

January  27,  i8^^.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  7  Mem- 
bers &  2  Visitors.     The  three  Lectures  were  given 

February  10,  1800.— stated  Lodge.  Present  16 
members,  On  motion  Resolved  That  instead  of  the 
Secretary  receiving  50  Dolls  per  year  to  receive  One 
Dollar  on  each  initiation  and  One  Dollar  on  each 
Certificate.  It  was  also  agreed  that  our  present 
Tyler  McArty  be  discharged  and  William  Schneider 
be  appointed  in  his  room. 

The  Pettion  of  Rich*^.  Hunt  late  Treasurer  to  be 
reinstated  in  this  Lodge  was  read  and  unanimously 
agreed  to  he  giving  security  to  the  Treasurer  for  the 
"Mony  hee  Ows"  this  Lodge. 

March  10,  1800.— Stated  Night.  Present  11  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors. 

Two  Communications  from  the  Grand  Lodge  was 
read  and  approved  on  It  was  moved  and  seconded 
that  Copies  of  the  Grand  Masters  Communication 
be  Printed  for  the  use  of  the  Members  and  B"".  Phillips 
W.  M.  was  appointed  to  wait  on  the  G.  M.  for  his 
leave  which  was  Granted. 

Resolved  That  Aprons  for  the  Officers  with  proper 
emblems  painted  upon  them  and  also  12  White  Aprons 
be  provided  for  the  use  of  Lodge  No  2 

March  11,  i<SO(?.— Extra  Lodge.      2pm      Joseph 

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Lynch  and  John  Phillips,  Mariners  were  Entered 
Passed  &  Eaised,  by  a  dispensation  granted  by  the 
R.  W.  Grand  Master. 

March  15,  1800.— ^xtra  Lodge. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  enquier  into  the  situa- 
tion of  B'■^  Hamilton  Baylee  and  Joseph  Choats  Re- 
ported that  they  assisted  B^  J.  H.  Baile  with  Five 
Dolls,  but  found  B""  Joseph  Choats  in  a  situation  not 
wanting  assistance. 

'  *  Henry  Mesey  was  Initiated  in  the  first  degree  this 
Night  he  being  aproved  on  the  Last  Stated  Night 
the  sence  of  the  Lodge  was  taken  on  the  Question  and 
was  agreed  to  Unanimous.  B'"  Mesey  being  in  wait- 
ing was  Initiated  in  the  first  degree  of  Masonery  in 
ancient  form"  Received  a  Lecture  on  that  degree 
Pay^  his  Initiation  Fees  26  Dolls. 

April  14,  i<SO^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  10  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors. 

A  Circular  Letter  was  Received  from  the  Grand 
Lodge  and  Read,  the  Contents  was  the  Expulsion  of 
E  Fisher  for  Life,  and  the  Suspending  Mathew  Wat- 
son «&  W°.  Miller  for  the  term  of  one  Year,  for  mis- 
conduct, all  members  of  No.  19.  A  motion  was  made 
and  seconded  that  special  notices  be  sent  to  such 
Members  who  are  in  arears  to  the  Lodge  the  next 

stated  Night.     A  complaint  was  made  against  B' 

by  B' the  Complaint  was  Refered  to  the  Com- 
mittee of  Grievances. 

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R.    W.    GRAND    SECRETARY    1797-1816. 


1Int)epenDence  Hall,  1800^1802 

April  28,  :ZSO^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  8 
members  &  5  Visitors. 

Henry  Robinson  and  W°.  Peek  to  be  struck  of  the 
list  of  Members  for  not  Paying  their  dues  according 
to  the  by-laws.  The  Committee  of  Charity  not  being 
able  to  Report  on  the  situation  of  Timothy  Russel  was 
ordered  to  be  Continued. 

May  12, 1800.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  11  members 
&  6  Visitors. 

May  15,  i<S^(?.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  6  mem- 
bers, 

The  Lodge  met  for  the  Purpose  of  Initiating  two 
Persons  by  dispensation  but  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master 
not  being  satisfyd  with  their  Caracter  would  not  grant 
the  same. 

June  9,  iSOO.— Stated  Night.  Present  18  members 
&  8  Visitors.  Election.— Geo  A  Baker,  W.  M.— 
Robert  Pullen,  S.  W.-Adam  Duey,  J.  W.-John 
Cope,  Treas""— Thos  Marshall,  Secty. 

"A  motion  was  made  and  seconded  and  leave  was 
granted  by  the  [Grand?]  Lodge  to  work  in  the  higher 
degrees  of  Free  Masonry  under  the  Warrant  of  Lodge 
No  2"     Balance  in  Treas""  hands  1560  Dolls. 

June  23,  iSO^?.— Extra  Lodge.      Officers  Installed. 

July  14,  iSt'O.— Stated  Night.  Present  13  mem- 
bers &  2  Visitors  Brs  Rain  «&  Burden  were  appointed 
Stewards     Bro  Hassels  S.  D.  &  Neild  J.  D. 

''The  Pettion  of  Ann  Rediough  a  Masons  Widow 

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praying  for  Relief  was  Read  a  sum  not  exceeding 
15  Dolls  was  granted  By  the  Lodge  to  be  disposed 
of  as  the  Committee  thought  propper  Committee  B'■^ 
Duey  Cope  &  Marshall.  It  was  agreed  that  the 
Treasurer  should  Receive  a  security  from  B^  Hunt 
for  the  Money  he  Ows  this  Lodge  and  that  B""  Hunt 
should  have  leaf  to  Pettion  this  Lodg  to  become  a 
Member.  A  Motion  was  made  &  seconded  that  12 
Books  of  the  Constitution  be  got  for  the  use  of  the 
Lodge. ' ' 

August  11,  ISOO.Siaied  Lodge.  Present  11  mem- 
bers &  1  Visitor.  "It  was  agreed  that  an  Order  be 
given  to  the  Tyler  to  receive  a  picture  of  Solomon's 
Temple  from  Bro  Phillips  presented  by  Bro  Patton 
to  be  hung  up  in  this  Lodge" 

The  Committee  apointed  to  enquire  into  the  case 
of  Ann  Rediough  they  not  being  ready  to  reporte 
it  was  agreed  that  B'"  Charls  Nield  be  added  to 
the  Committee  The  Pettion  of  Henry  Baker  for 
relief  was  read  it  was  agreed  that  a  committee  be 
appointed  to  enquier  into  the  Carracter  an  circum- 
stance of  the  Pettioner  the  Committe  was  B'"^  Pullen 
Duey  and  Phillips. 

September  8,  1800.— Stated  Night.  Present  14 
members  and  5  Visitors.  '^It  was  agreed  that  a 
vote  of  Thanks  be  given  Bro  Jno  Patten  for  his 
present  of  a  picture  of  Solomon's  Temple  for  the 
use  of  Lodge  No  2" 

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''The  Committee  apointed  to  enquire  into  the  situa- 
tion of  Ann  Rediough  and  Henry  C.  Baker  Pettioning 
this  Lodge  for  relief  reported  that  they  found  them 
fit  objects  and  relieved  them  with  10  Dollars  each. 
The  Pettion  of  RoV.  Fletcher  Member  of  S\  Johns 
Lodge  New  York  praying  for  Relief  was  Read  and 
a  Committee  appointed  to  enquier  into  his  Caracter 
and  situation  and  to  grant  such  relief  as  they  shold 
think  fitt  Committee  B'\  Rob*.  Pullen,  John  Phillips 
W"".  Allen.  A  Bill  was  presented  for  Payment  for 
Furnishing  this  Lodge  with  eight  Officers  and  22 
Plain  aprons  wich  ordered  to  be  Payd.  A  Complaint 
was  made  by  B''  Esdale  of  Lodge  No.  9  against  B'". 
Cope  of  this  Lodge  it  was  agreed  that  a  special  Com- 
mittee be  apointed  to  enquier  into  the  merits  of  the 
Complaint.  B'  Pullen  Burden  &  Phillips— Com- 
mittee. ' ' 

''It  was  agreed  that  the  Tyler's  Bill  and  all  other 
Bills  against  this  Lodge  be  in  future  read  in  open 
Lodge  for  the  information  of  the  members  present." 

October  13,  iS^O.— Stated  Night.  Present  6  mem- 
bers adjourned  to  October  18  Present  8  mem  &  3 
Visitors. 

October  18,  1800.— Adjourned  Stated  Lodge.  The 
Committee  apointed  to  enquier  into  the  dispute 
betwixt  B""  John  Cope  and  B^  Button  Estil  reported 
it  was  their  opinion  that  B^  Jolm  Cope  treated  the 
Committee  with  disrespect  in  not  atending  after  being 

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summoned  A  Complaint  was  made  by  Lodge  No. 
72  against  B^  Casper  Graff  a  member  of  this  Lodge 
and  a  Committee  was  apointed  to  here  the  Complaint 
the  Committee  was  B'^  Pullen,  Burden  &  Nield.  The 
Pettion  of  Martha  Walker  a  Masons  Widow  Praying 
for  Relief  was  again  read  &  a  Committee  was  apointed 
to  enquier  into  her  Carracter. 

November  10,  i8(7{).— Stated  Lodge.  Present  12 
members  &  1  Visitor,  Bro  Franklin 

The  Committe  apointed  hear  the  Complaint  made 
by  Lodge  72  against  Casper  Graff  B^  Coop  of  Lodge 
No  72  not  atending  the  Committee  was  not  able  to 
Report  The  Committee  apointed  to  enquier  into  the 
situation  of  Elizabeth  Skinner  reported  it  was  their 
opinion  she  wanted  no  relief.  The  Committee  apointed 
to  enquier  into  the  situation  of  Rob*.  Fletcher  of  S*. 
Johns  Lodge  New  York  Praying  for  relief  reported 
that  they  found  him  worthy  of  being  relieved  and 
gave  him  ten  Dollars.  The  Committee  apointed  to 
enquier  into  the  situation  and  carracter  of  Martha 
Walker  Praying  for  relief  reported  that  she  was 
worthy  of  being  relieved  and  gave  her  six  Dollars. 

''The  Lodge  agreed  unanimously  that  a  Committee 
of  three  brethern  be  appointed  to  draw  up  a  vote  of 
thanks  to  be  given  to  Bro  Jno  Patton  for  the  present 
of  Wine  Glass  and  Tumblers  &c  for  the  use  of  Lodge 
No  2  The  Committee  was  Br  G.  A.  Baker  W  M.  Brs 
Pullen  S  W  and  John  Phillips  "  ' '  The  Tyler  Bill  was 
read  and  agreed  to  amounting  to  £  3—6—2" 

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November  22,  iS^O.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  10 
members  and  5  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M.  J. 
Bayard  Smith  &  R.  W.  S.  G.  W.  Milnor. 

A  Pettion  was  presented  and  Read  from  the  Widow 
Janner  Praying  for  Relief  and  a  Committe  was 
apointed  to  Enquier  into  her  situation  and  Report 
thereon  the  Next  Stated  night 

December  8,  iSOO.— Stated  Night.  Present  19  mem- 
bers Bal  in  Treas'  $107.— Election  G.  A.  Baker 
W.  M.-Robert  Pullen  S.  W.-Joseph  Burden  J.  W. 
John  Phillips,  Secty— John  Cope.  Treas^ 

The  Committe  apointed  to  enquire  into  the  situation 
of  Widow  Janner  was  not  able  to  report  not  being 
able  to  find  her  Place  of  aboad  it  was  agreed  that  they 
should  be  discharged.  The  Lodge  went  into  the  Com- 
plaint made  against  B"".  Cope  by  B"".  Button  Estil 
it  was  agreed  that  the  same  Committe  be  alowd  to 
sit  again  as  B'".  Cope's  reason  for  not  atending  the 
Committee  was  that  he  was  out  of  Town. 

December  22,  i(S6?6>.— Stated  Lodge.  Officers  in- 
stalled, Bro.  Able,  S.  D.-Thos  Marshall,  J.  D.- 
Bros Rain  &  Ostheine,  Stewards  and  Schneider,  Tyler. 

The  Committe  apointed  to  enquire  into  the  situation 
of  Widow  Janner  came  forward  and  her  situation 
made  known  to  the  Lodge  The  Lodge  on  their  re- 
porte  Granted  her  Ten  Dollars  and  the  Secf^.  was 
ordered  to  draw  an  order  on  the  Treasurer  to  the 
amount.      The  Committe  apointed  to  hear  the  Com- 

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plaint  made  by  B'.  Estil  against  B""  Cope  at  B""  Allen's 
according  to  the  sumons  from  the  Secf^  B'"  Cope  not 
atending  the  Committe  cold  not  report  it  was  unani- 
mously agreed  to  Postpone  the  Business  to  the  next 
Stated  night,  when  B""  Cope  should  be  served  with  a 
special  Summons  to  shew  Cawse  why  he  not  be  expeld. 

"A  motion  was  made  and  seconded  that  the  expense 
of  the  dinner  on  St  John's  day  shall  not  exceed  Two 
Dollars  to  each  member  and  if  there  be  any  deficiency 
the  Lodge  shall  pay  the  deficiency  out  of  their  funds, 
a  motion  was  made  and  seconded  that  the  Grand 
Officers  be  invited  to  dine  with  the  members  of  ISTo 
2  on  St  John's  Day  next  and  the  Dinner  Committee 
was  ordered  to  invite  them,  a  motion  was  carried  that 
an  order  be  drawn  on  the  Treas'"  for  40  Dolls  to  pay 
the  deficiency  of  the  Dinner  if  any  there  may  be." 
A  Letter  was  read  from  Hiram  Lodge  No  81  inviting 
the  Lodge  to  joint  with  them  in  a  procession  on  the 
1st  January  1801  at  Germantown. 

December  27,  1800.— '^This  being  St  John's  Day, 

The  Members  of  this  Lodge  with  visiting  brethern 

from   other   Lodges    Met   at   John   Francis'    Market 

Street^  where  we  partook  of  an  elegant  entertainment 

*  After  Philadelphia  had  ceased  to  be  the  capital  city,  the  mansion. 
No.  160  Market  Street,  formerly  occupied  by  General  Washington, 
was  rented  by  Brother  John  Francis,  who  opened  it  as  a  public 
house  under  the  name  of  the  Union  Hotel.  It  has  been  stated  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  met  in  this  historic  mansion  on  several  occasions, 
but  no  documentary  proof  of  this  fact  has  thus  far  been  found. 
The  above  entry  in  the  Minutes  of  Lodge  No.  2,  however,  proves 
the  fact  that  occasional  Lodges  were  held  here. 

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provided  on  the  occasion.  The  Grand  S.  W.  &  J.  W. 
attended.  After  Dinner  an  E  A  Lodge  was  opened. 
A  Deputation  was  appointed  to  wait  on  Lodge  59  & 
73  to  congratulate  them  upon  the  day  &c  A  Deputa- 
tion was  likewise  received  from  Lodge  59  &  73  with 
congratulations  in  the  day. 

After  having  spent  the  day  with  the  utmost  Hilarity 
and  Conviviality  the  Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  9 

0  'clock 

Applications    this    year    Liitiations    6    Affiliations 

1  Suspended    4    Withdrawn    1 

January  12,  i56?i.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  14 
members  &  3  Visitors. 

The  Lodge  Proceeded  to  the  discussion  on  the  Con- 
duct of  John  Cope,  and  after  mature  Delibration  it 
was  moved  &  Seconded  that  John  Cope  be  and  is 
hereby  Expelled,  for  the  Great  Contempt  Shewn  to 
three  Committees  appointed  by  the  Lodge  to  Settle 
an  Account  Beetween  B^  Estill  of  Lodge  No.  9  and 
John  Cope,  and  his  refusal  to  attend  a  Special  Com- 
mitte  Sent  to  him  by  the  Lodge  and  making  use  of 
Blasphemious  Language  and  forfeeture  of  his  obliga- 
tion Unanimous.  A  Petition  from  Bernard  I^app 
Praying  Relief  was  read.  A  Committee  was  ap- 
pointed to  Enquire  into  his  Situation  and  five  dollars 
placed  in  their  hand  for  his  relief  if  they  should  see 
occasion. 

January  26,  i<S{)i.— Adjourned  Lodge      Present  14 

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members  and  2  Visitors.  Br  Chas  Neild  chosen 
Treas""  &  installed  in  place  of  Jno  Cope  expelled 

A  Committee  was  appointed  to  wait  on  the  late 
Treasurer  for  all  papers  in  his  possession  and  to 
settle  his  Demand  on  this  Lodge  if  he  have  any. 

February  9, 1801.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  mem- 
bers &  9  Visitors  including  E.  W.  G.  M.  Smith  '^Ee- 
solved  That  every  brother  receiving  a  certificate  from 
this  Lodge  or  from  the  Grand  Lodge  for  the  purpose 
of  traveling  shall  on  or  before  the  Second  stated 
night  after  his  return  to  the  City  shall  return  the 
said  Certificate  to  the  Secretary  of  ye  Lodge  under 
ye  forfeiture  of  his  Expulsion,  unanimous"  Tyler 
Bill  read  &  Ordered  paid  $14.47^ 

February  23,  iSOi.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
16  members  &  9  Visitors. 

A  petition  from  y^  Wife  of  Tho^  Marley  praying 
relief  was  presented  and  read  The  petition  was 
reffered  to  a  Committee  with  power  to  Draw  on  the 
Treasurer  for  a  Sum  not  Exceeding  ten  Dollars  to 
be  applied  as  they  Shall  See  Occasion. 

''Bill  was  presented  by  Bro  Jno  Garvey  and  read 
amounting  to  4  Dolls  for  ye  making  a  A  Box  of 
Mahogany  and  lined  for  ye  collection  of  Dues,  which 
was  ordered  to  be  paid  an  order  drawn  on  ye  Treas- 
urer for  ye  same."     Tyler  Bill  $8.50 

March  9,  iSOi.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21  mem- 
bers and  19  Visitors  among  whom  was  Patrick  Lyons 

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The  Committee  to  whom  was  reffered  the  Petition 
of  the  wife  of  Tho^  Marley  Reported,  that  they  found 
her  in  Great  Distress  and  relieved  her  with  ten  Dol- 
lars allowed  by  y^  Lodge.  The  Committee  to  whom 
was  reffered  y®  Petition  of  David  Irving  reported  un- 
favourably of  him  on  the  sence  of  y^  Lodg  being  taken, 
it  was  agreed  that  they  should  go  into  ballot  for  him, 
on  Counting  the  ballots  there  being  thirteen  black 
balls  and  only  five  white  for  him  he  was  rejected 
which  was  ordered  to  be  transmitted  to  the  Grand 
Lodge.  The  Secretary  was  ordered  to  inform  the 
Candidate  of  y^  same. 

March  12,  i8{?i.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  6  mem- 
bers &  6  Visitors  William  Warren  receives  first 
degree 

March  23,  i<SC:Z.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors. 

B^  Marshall  presented  12  aprons  to  y^  Lodge 
agreable  to  an  order  Received  the  Last  Meeting.  B"" 
Snyder  informed  the  Lodge  that  he  had  recieved  from 
y^  W.  M.  1  doz.  Copies  of  y^  Constitutions  for  y^  use 
of  y®  Lodge. 

April  13,  i(S(?i.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers &  14  Visitors.  The  W.  M.  returned  thanks  to 
Capt  Jno  Patton  Member  of  this  Lodge,  for  ye  pres- 
ents that  he  had  given  this  Lodge  (viz)  a  Picture  of 
Solomon's  Temple  with  Decanter  Tumblers  &  Wine 
Glasses  with  ye  square  &  Compass  cut  on  each  and 
Lodge  No  2" 

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A  Petition  was  presented  and  read  from  Bar- 
tholomew Van  Keer  a  Distressed  Brother  praying 
reliefe  was  read  on  y*  sense  of  y^  Lodg  bieng  taken 
it  was  rejected. 

April  27,  i<S^:Z.— Adjounaed  Lodge.  Present  12 
members  &  5  Visitors.  ''Bro  Phillips  presented  this 
Lodge  with  a  book  of  the  Constitutions  of  Mass  & 
Boston  for  the  use  of  this  Lodge." 

May  11,  IS^i.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors.  ''Br  Hall  was  examined  in  open 
Lodge  by  the  S.  W.  as  to  his  proficiency  and  found 
worthy  to  be  Raised. ' '  Eesolved  ' '  That  the  Stewards 
be  authorized  to  provide  a  handsome  supper  for  the 
next  stated  Meeting  on  the  sense  of  the  Lodge  being 
taken  it  was  agreed  to.  It  was  then  moved  and  sec- 
onded that  the  Stewards  be  limited,  and  that  they  do 
not  exceed  Twenty  Dollars  which  was  agreed  to" 
Tylers  Bill  paid  £  3-14-lOi 

June  8,  iS(?i.— Present  25  members  &  9  Visitors. 
Election  Robert  Pullen  W.  M.— Joseph  Burden  S.  W. 
-Thos  Marshall  J.  W.-Phillips,  Secty-Geo  A 
Baker  Treas^  Resolved  "That  no  refreshment  be 
provided  except  on  Election  Nights  the  expenses  of 
which  shall  be  determined  by  the  Lodge  the  Meeting 
previous  to  the  Election"     Tyler  Bill  £  7—18—6. 

Jime  22,  iS^i.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  10 
members  &  4  Visitors.     Officers  Installed 

July  13,  iSOi.— Stated  Lodge.     Present  14  members 

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&  4  Visitors.  ''A  communication  was  presented  and 
read  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  stating 
their  prospect  of  purchasing  a  permanent  place  to 
carry  on  their  Labors  and  requesting  a  loan  of  this 
Lodge  of  whatever  sum  they  should  be  able  to  spare 
on  lawful  interest."  ''On  the  sense  of  the  Lodge 
being  taken  it  was  agreed  that  Fifty  Dollars  be 
loaned."  Bro  Tatem  S.  D.  Jno  Cope  J  D.  Farr 
&  Allen  Stewards     Tylers  Bill  £  5-11-7 

July  16,  iS{?i.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  9  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors. 

July  24,  i(SW.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  7  members 
&  1  Visitor. 

August  10,  i<90i.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  18  mem- 
bers &  12  Visitors. 

Visitors :  Br.  Edward  &  James  Clark,  No  417,  Ireland 

Br.  Howel  "   Wigtinbury  67 

"    Snider,  No  72  "   Isaac  Breden,  184,  Ireland 

"   Moore  "    John  C.  Brevor 

"    H.  Snider,  67  "    McFarland,  71 

"    Littlewood,  67  "    H.  Cambell 

Tyler's  Bill  $11.75  adjourned  till  to  morrow  morn- 
ing 6  a.  m. 

August  11,  :ZSOi.— Adjourned  Lodge.  6am 
Present  8  members  &  4  Visitors. 

Entered  Apprentic  Lodg  was  opened  in  due  form 
and  the  minutes  of  the  Last  Stated  Meeting  was  read. 
Entered  Apprentice  Lodge  Closed  and  the  Master 
Masons  opened  Br.  Corson  being  duly  prepared  was 

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brought  forward  and  raised  to  the  Sublime  Degree 
of  a  Master  Mason  in  Ancient  form.  Returned  and 
gave  thanks  and  received  a  Lecture  on  that  Degree. 
Lodge  Closed  at  8  o'clock. 

September  14,  :Z(S^i.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  21 
members  &  4  Visitors. 

The  W.  M.  Suggested  to  the  Lodge  the  Case  of 
B'".  W".  Harmar  a  Member  of  this  Lodge,  who  being 
in  a  deranged  state  of  his  Mind,  thought  it  would 
be  advisable  to  appoint  a  Committee  to  make  an 
enquiry  into  his  affairs  and  if  he  stood  in  need  to 
relive  him,  tho  he  had  not  applyed  for  any,  which  the 
Lodge  agreed  to,  and  a  sum  not  exceeding  15  Dollars 
were  to  be  drawn  by  the  Committee  on  the  Treasurer 
as  they  shall  see  fit.  Committee  Brs.  PuUen,  Burden 
and  Marshal.  The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered 
the  Petition  of  Agnew  Campbell  Reported  favorably; 
but  an  objection  being  stated  sufficient  to  induce  the 
Committee  to  withdraw  their  report,  after  some  Dis- 
cussion they  were  continued  to  enquire  farther  and 
report  the  Next  Stated  night.  Stewards  Bill 
£  2-19-3 

October  12,  iSOi.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16 
members  &  3  Visitors. 

Brother.  Ward,  Scotland— Todd,  Belfast  Wigtilbury 
No  67 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  reffered  the  petition 
of  M''.  Harman  Reported  they  had  found  her  distress 

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1Int)epcnt)encc  Mall,  \800A802 

and  relieved  her  with  ten  dollars.  A  motion  was 
made  and  Seconded  that  the  sum  of  twenty  Dollars  be 
placed  in  the  Hands  of  the  Committee  for  the  widow 
of  Br.  W".  Harman  and  his  family  which  was  agreed 
to  unanimously. 

A  Petition  was  ordered  to  be  drawn  by  the  Com- 
mittee on  Charity  in  behalf  of  this  Lodge  for  the 
widow  of  Bro  Wm  Harmar,  and  ''that  they  present 
the  said  Petition  to  their  sister  Lodges  in  this  City 
(Lodge  Amenite  excepted)  to  crave  their  assistance" 
Stewards  Bill  $9.- 

A  petition  was  presented  from  the  widow  of  Alex"". 
Robinson  who  was  a  Member  of  Old  No.  2  praying 
relief  was  read,  after  some  discussion  the  sense  of 
the  Lodge  being  taken  it  was  rejected. 

October  26,  18(71.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  12 
members,  ''The  Committee  on  Bro  Harman  "report 
That  they  made  application  to  the  several  Lodges 
herewith  subjoined  and  obtained  relief  for  the  Peti- 
tioner which  the  different  Ee solutions  state  they  like- 
wise report  that  [the  widow  of  ^  Bro  Wm  Harman 
died  on  Saturday  and  was  decently  interred  on 
Sunday ' ' 

On  motion  made  and  seconded  it  was  Resolved  that 
the  remaining  ten  Dollars  which  remained  out  of  20 
voted  by  the  Lodge,  remain  with  the  Committee  for 
her  further  relief,  on  the  sense  of  the  Lodge  being 
taken  it  was  unanimously  agreed  to. 

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Resolved  That  in  future  there  be  no  refreshments 
provided  out  of  the  funds  of  the  Lodge  except  on  the 
regular  Stated  Lodge  nights,  being  the  second  Monday 
in  every  month  carried  unanimously 

November  9,  i<9{?i.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20 
members  &  4  Visitors. 

The  Worship  M.  made  a  verbal  Report  that  they 
had  given  the  remaining  ten  Dollars  which  was  re- 
maining in  their  hands  to  the  widow  Harman.  When 
she  returned  her  gratefull  acknowledgement  for  the 
relief  she  had  received  from  them  and  the  different 
Lodges  which  together  amounted  to  Sixty  Dollars 
and  that  it  should  never  be  obliterated  from  her  mind. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded  that  a  sum  not  ex- 
ceeding 20  Dolls  be  expended  by  the  Stewards  at  our 
Election  night,  which  was  agreed  to"  Tylers  Bill 
$8.75. 

December  14,  iS^i.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23 
members  &  6  Visitors. 

A  petition  was  received  from  the  widow  of  Ale^^ 
Robinson  a  Member  of  Old  No  2  Stating  her  dis- 
tressed Situation  and  praying  relief  was  read  after 
some  Discussion,  it  was  referred  to  a  Committee  with 
Power  to  Draw  on  the  Treasurer  for  10  Dollars  for 
her  Relief,  if  found  worthy.  Committee  appointed 
were  Brs.  Pullen,  Burden,  Marshal.  The  Lodge  was 
called  off  from  Labour  to  refreshment,  the  Lodge  was 
again  called  on.      The  Lodge  went  into  the  Election 

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of  ofl&cers  for  the  ensuing  Six  Months  when  the  fol- 
lowing Brethren  were  duly  Elected  for  the  ensuing 
Six  Months,  viz.: 

Bob'  Pullen  W  M  Jos  Burden  S.  W.  Thos  Mar- 
shall J.  W.  Phillips  Secty  G  A  Baker  Treas' 
''Resolved  That  notices  be  sent  to  the  members  on 
adjourned  Meetings."  Officers  Installed  Tyler  & 
Stewards  Bill  £  7-10-8"^ 

December  26,  jZSOi.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  8 
members 

Petitions  this  year  16  Approved  14  Affiliations 
3     1  Suspended     2  Expelled 

End  of  the  Foueth  Minute  Book  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

January  11,  i<9^2.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  14 
members  and  4  Visitors.  Bal.  in  Treasurers  hands 
$151.06  "Brother  Carter  was  examined  in  Open 
Lodge  as  to  his  proficiency  in  y®  first  Degree  and 
found  worthy  to  be  Passed." 

January  25,  i<S(?5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  16 
members  &  3  Visitors. 

February  8,  iSO^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21  mem- 
bers &  10  Visitors. 

A  Letter  was  received  and  read  from  David  Irving 
requesting  the  brethren  to  reconsider  his  petition  and 
revoke  the  result  of  the  ballot  which  was  taken  that 
night,  after  some  discussion,  on  motion  made  and 
seconded  it  was  agreed  that  it  should  lay  over  to  the 
next  Stated  night. 

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Henry  Moser  being  some  time  past  an  Entered 
Apprentice  and  been  constantly  in  the  habit  of 
travelling,  had  not  an  opportunity  to  perfect  himself 
according  to  our  bye-Laws  however  on  y^  sense  of 
the  Lodge  being  taken,  it  was  agreed  that  he  should 
be  passed. 

Friday,  February  12,  iS^^.— Adjourned  Lodge. 
Present  15  members. 

March  8,  iS^^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers ''A  complaint  was  brought  forward  against  a 
member  of  this  Lodge  by  a  Member  of  Lodge  No  72 
which  was  referred  to  a  Committee  to  Investigate" 

On  Motion  made  and  Seconded  Resolved  that  a 
Committee  be  appointed  to  Correct  &  Eevise  the  bye 
laws  and  report  thereon. 

March  16,  iS05.— Extra  Meeting.  13  members 
Present.  "Bro  Maquire  was  Passed  to  the  Degree 
of  the  Chair  by  virtue  of  a  Dispensation  from  the 
Grand  Lodge" 

March  30,  iSO^.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  13  mem- 
bers. 

April  20,  iS^5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16  mem- 
bers. 

The  Eegulations  of  which  the  masters  have  agreed 
to  Support  in  Br.  Francis  Koom^  was  agreed  to 
unanimously. 

A   Eeport   of   the    Committee   on   the   Petition   of 

'Bro  "William  Francis  Dancing  Academy,  No.  70,  North  Eighth 
Street  between  Arch  and  Race. 

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Laurence  Justice's  Child  report  that  they  found  the 
Child  in  Distress  and  relieve  it  with  the  ten  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands  for  that  Purpose. 

May  10,  J<S^<2.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21  mem- 
bers. ''Resolved  That  no  dues  be  collected  from  our 
visiting  Brethren  during  our  Meetings  in  this  room, 
as  it  is  stated  in  ye  8th  Section  of  our  Bye  Laws" 

A  Petition  was  read  from  John  Brock  Praying 
relief.  After  some  Discussion  it  was  rejected  on  his 
having  been  Expelled  from  this  lodge  for  non  pay- 
ment of  Dues. 

May  24,  iSO^.— Special  Meeting.  Present  14  mem- 
bers &  10  Visitors.  An  Entered  Apprentice  Lodge 
opened  in  due  form.  ''The  W  M  informed  the 
Brethren  that  this  Lodge  was  summoned  together 
for  the  express  purpose  of  taking  into  consideration 
the  granting  a  Loan  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  to  be 
placed  in  hand  of  the  Committee  for  the  purpose  of 
purchasing  a  permanent  Building."  "On  Motion, 
Resolved  That  the  sum  of  Two  hundred  and  fifty 
Dollars  be  loaned  for  that  purpose  which  was  carried 
unanimously"  and  "A  Committee  was  appointed  to 
wait  on  Brethren  for  their  voluntary  donations  for 
the  same  purpose,"  Bros  Robert  Pullen  W  M  for  the 
City,  William  Farr  for  Southwark  and  John  Cope 
for  the  Northern  Liberties" 

June  14,  iS^5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  22  mem- 
bers &  5  Visitors. 

Visitors:   Wigtinbury,   No   3;   Lewis,   W.   M.,   No. 

19  289 


1730— ffreemasonr^  in  pcnnsi^lvanta— 1907 

51;  Samuel  Hamton,  19;  Blame,  73;  Thomas  Hen- 
nessy,  91. 

The  Petitions  which  lay  on  our  books  from  the 
Last  Stated  night  of  the  Widows  Bennet  &  Ford 
were  refered  to  Committees  with  powers  of  giving 
them  a  Sum  not  Exceeding  ten  Dollars  each  as  they 
shall  see  occasion. 

Election  Joseph  Burden  W.  M.— Thomas  Marshall, 
S.  W.— Thomas  Tatem,  J.  W.  John  Phillips.  Secty. 
—Charles  Hassells,  Treas'" 

Thursday,  June  17, 1802,  6  a.  m.— Adjourned  Lodge. 
Present  13  members  and  1  visitor  Bro  Lewis  W  M 
No  51.      Officers  installed. 

Sunday  Morning,  June  20,  1802,  9  a.  m.— Extra 
Meeting.  Present  8  members,  Capt°  Benjamin  Weeks 
initiated. 

July  12,  i805.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  14 
members  &  5  Visitors. 

A  petition  was  received  and  read  from  the  Widow 
Lexe  stating  her  distressed  Situation.  A  Committee 
was  appointed  consisting  of  Br^  Pullen,  Carter  & 
Phillips  to  Enquire  into  her  Situation  and  Grant  her 
such  relief  as  they  shall  see  fit  not  exceeding  ten 
Dollars. 

A  petition  was  received  and  read  from  the  Widow 
Gatty  stating  her  distressed  situation;  the  above 
Committee  were  appointed  with  the  same  powers  of 
relieving  her. 

Bal.  in  Treas".  hands  $34. 

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July  17,  i<S^5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  13 
members  &  5  Visitors.  Bro  Carter  appointed  S.  D, 
Bro  Rayner  J.  D.  Bro  William  Farr  and  Eobert  Allen, 
Stewards. 

August  8,  i805.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  7  members 
"A  Petition  was  read  from  Bro  Wm  Schneider  re- 
questing a  loan  of  this  Lodge  on  the  sense  of  the 
Lodge  being  taken  it  was  agreed  that  Fifteen  Dolls 
be  loaned  to  him  and  his  receipt  taken  for  the  same" 

It  was  moved,  seconded  and  agreed  to  that  a  Com- 
mittee be  appointed  to  enquire  into  the  state  &  situa- 
tion of  the  Widow  Bray  whose  Certificate  was  sent 
on  to  Boston,  &  10  Dollars  placed  in  the  Hands  of  a 
Committee,  viz:   Br^  Pullen  &  Phillips. 

Adjourned  to  the  Second  Monday  in  November, 
[This  adjournment  was  on  account  of  another  out- 
break of  the  yellow  fever.] 

November  8,  i8(?5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  15 
members  &  3  Visitors.  '^It  was  moved  and  seconded 
that  the  members  be  exonerated  from  paying  dues 
from  July  to  November  which  was  agreed  to. ' ' 

A  Petition  was  presented  and  read  from  Tho^ 
Bary,  a  Mariner  of  No.  53  in  England  Setting  forth 
his  distressed  situation  &  Craving  such  relief  as  the 
Brethren  shall  see  fit.  Eef erred  to  a  Committee  of 
Br^  Rob'.  Allen,  Marshall  &  Tatem  to  enquire  into 
his  Situation  and  to  Grant  him  such  relief  as  they 
shall  see  occasion  not  exceeding  Eight  Dollars,  which 
sum  was  placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose.    Br 

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Israel  Presented  likewise  a  Dollar.  The  Committee 
to  whom  was  referred  the  Correspondence  with  the 
S'.  Andrews  Lodge  in  Boston  Relative  to  the  Certifi- 
cate and  the  Petition  of  the  Widow  Bray,  made  their 
report,  and  Presented  the  letters  which  they  received 
from  the  G.  Seer''  of  Massachusetts  before  the  Lodge 
which  was  read.  After  some  discussion,  on  the  Sence 
of  the  Lodge  being  taken  it  was  Resolved  that  the 
Petition  and  Letters  be  returned  her. 

November  18,  i<9(?5.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  8 
members  &  1  Visitor  Bro  Rose  No  52 

December  13,  i(S6)5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21 
members  &  2  Visitors 

Br.  Rob*.  Allen  Reported  that  he  had  laid  out  the 
Monies  that  had  been  put  in  his  hands  for  Br  Tho^ 
Barry  in  Cloathing  for  him. 

A  Letter  was  presented  and  read  from  Tho^  Barry, 
Returning  his  grateful  acknowledgement  to  this 
Lodge  for  their  favours  Conferred  on  him. 

A  Petition  was  Presented  and  read  from  Jno.  Able, 
a  Member  of  this  Lodge  Stating  his  Situation  owing 
to  an  accidence  he  received  in  his  business  and  re- 
questing assistance  of  this  Lodge.  On  the  Sence  of 
the  Lodge  being  taken,  a  Committee  was  appointed 
of  Br°.  Jn°.  Cope,  Chas.  Hassells  &  Jn".  Ostheime  and 
a  grant  of  20  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  his 
assistance. 

The  Lodge  Called  of  from  Labour  to  Refreshment 
for  a  Short  Space  of  time. 

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Election  Joseph  Burden  W  M  Thos  Tatem  S.  W. 
Thomas  Raynor  J.  W.  John  Phillips  Secty  Robert 
Pullen  Treas'"  ''It  was  moved  and  seconded  'That 
an  Inside  Tyler  or  Master  of  Ceremonies  be  ax>- 
pointed  which  the  Lodge  agreed  to:— Bro  William 
Allen  was  appointed  to  that  Office.'  Bro  Wm 
Schneider  was  reappointed  outside  Tyler  for  the 
ensuing  six  months," 

Resolved  that  a  Committee  of  three  be  appointed 
to  procure  new  Aprons,  Sashes  and  new  hangings  for 
the  Jewels  &  for  the  Officers  of  this  Lodge. 

"Tyler's  Bill  was  read  and  ordered  to  be  paid 
except  that  which  refers  to  the  moving  the  things 
amounting  to  3  Dolls,  which  was  referred  to  the 
officers. ' ' 

Saturday,  December  25,  1802,  11  a.  w.— Adjourned 
Lodge.  Present  8  members  &  1  Visitor.  Officers 
installed  Bro  Carter  appointed  S.  D.  &  Robert  Allen 
J.  D.  Applications  14  Approved  8  Affiliations  3 
Not  acted  on  4     Dispensation  3 

Here  follows  a  Certifyed  list  of  Members,  Initia- 
tions Admissions  &  Dispensations,  signed  by  John 
Phillips  Secretary. 


CHAPTER   XX. 


The  Pennsylvania  Freemason's  H.-'lLL,  1803-1811. 

HE  question  has  frequently  been  asked 
when  and  why  the  Grand  Lodge 
vacated  the  rooms  in  the  State  House 
or  Independence  Hall,  as  neither  date 
nor  particulars  appear  in  the  minutes. 
The  finding  of  a  letter  in  our  Archives 
from  R.  W.  D.  G.  M.  Milnor  to  Grand 
Secretary  George  A.  Baker  dated  April  3,  1802,  gives 
us  the  first  clue  to  the  circumstances.  It  appears  from 
of&cial  records  that  early  in  the  year  1802  the  Legis- 
lature granted  to  Charles  Wilson  Peale  the  use  of 
the  State  House  for  a  museum,  who  at  once  took 
possession  and  made  several  changes,  such  as  build- 
ing a  room  over  the  main  stairway  in  the  main  hall 
and  placing  a  large  sign  over  the  main  door  contain- 
ing the  word  ''MUSEUM."  Peale  also  took  up  his 
dwelling  in  the  hall.  This  and  other  matters  made 
things  unpleasant  for  the  brethren.  Then  again  Peale 
objected  to  the  length  of  the  meetings,  and  sent  a 
complaint   to   the   R.   W.    G.   M.   J.    B.    Smith,   who 

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PLACE    OF    MEETING    OF    THE    GRAND     LODGE     OF     PENNSYLVANIA, 
PENNSYLVANIA    FREEMASONS     HALL,    1802-1810,    1819-1820. 
FILBERT    STREET,    ABOVE     EIGHTH,     NOnTII     SIDE. 
PHILADELPHIA.  '"""^^ 


Itbe  ipcnnsi^lvania  jfreemason's  Mall 

being  ill  referred  the  matter  to  the  R.  W.  Deupty 
James  Milnor,  who  sent  the  following  letter  to  the 
Grand  Secretary  for  action: 

Dear  Sir  &  Brother 

The  R.  W.  G.  M  being  too  much  indesposed  to  attend  to 
business  I  have  been  called  on  by  Mr  Peale  to  whose  care  the 
statehouse  has  been  Confided.  He  Complains  that  the  sit- 
tings of  the  Lodges  are  continued  to  so  late  an  hour  as  to 
occasion  him  great  inconvenience 

Will  you  be  good  enough  to  cause  it  to  be  intimated  to  the 
Masters  of  Lodges  that  it  is  very  desirable  for  the  short  time 
we  shall  be  permitted  to  occupy  our  present  place  of  meeting 
that  they  should  close  their  sittings  at  as  early  an  hour  as 
possible.  I  flatter  myself  a  mere  hint  on  the  subject  will 
remove  every  cause  of  Complaint 

Your  faithful  Br. 

James  MmNOR 

April  3,  1802  D.  G.  M. 

Br.  G.  A.  Baker  R.  W.  G.  S. 

In  the  meantime  the  friction  between  Peale  and  the 
brethren  increased,  and  it  appears  that  the  brethren 
were  summarily  ordered  to  vacate,  by  the  authorities. 
This  left  the  brethren  without  a  suitable  meeting 
place,  notwithstanding  the  efforts  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
to  secure  a  building  of  their  own.  In  this  dilemma 
Brother  William  Francis  came  to  the  aid  of  the 
brethren  and  offered  them  the  use  of  his  large  room 
on  the  west  side  of  Eighth  Street— no.  70  (old  number) 
—between  Arch  and  Race  Streets.      This  kind  offer 

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was  accepted  and  the  Grand  and  subordinate  Lodges 
met  there  until  the  building  on  Filbert  Street  above 
Eighth  Street  purchased  by  the  Grand  Lodge  was 
finished  and  ready  for  occupany. 

Brother  William  Francis  was  a  comedian  and  had 
a  dancing  academy  at  above  address.  It  was  in 
this  hall  or  room  where  the  Lodge  meetings  were 
held  during  this  interim.  He  was  the  same  person 
who  in  April,  1800,  borrowed  the  jewels  and  aprons 
of  several  Lodges  to  use  in  the  "Performance  of  a 
Theatrical  Representation  for  his  Benefit,"  for  which 
the  Grand  Lodge  censured  the  masters  of  the  afore- 
said Lodges.^ 

How  the  action  of  Brother  Francis  was  appreciated 
by  the  brethren  is  shown  by  the  following  resolution 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  at  the  Grand  Quarterly  Communi- 
cation, December  6,  A.  L.  5802,  when— 

On  Motion  made  and  Seconded,  Resolved  Unanimously, 
That  the  Thanks  of  this  Grand  Lodge  be  given  to  Brother 
William  Francis,  for  his  kind  attention  to  the  welfare  of  our 
Institution,  by  granting  leave  to  his  Grand  Lodge  and  the 
Subordinate  Lodges  to  meet  in  this  Room  at  a  Time  when 
they  were  all  destitute  of  a  place  of  Meeting. 

Resolved  Unanimously,  That  Bro''.  Grand  Secretary  pre- 
sent to  Brother  Francis  a  Copy  of  the  above  Resolution, 

This  was  followed  at  the  Adjourned  Communica- 
tion, December  13,  A.  L.  5802,  by  a  resolution  by  Bro. 
Lewis: 

'Reprint  of  the  Minutes,  Vol.  I.,  pp.  408^09. 

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In  consequence  of  Bro"".  William  Francis's  Fraternal  affec- 
tion to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  and  Subordinate 
Lodges  under  their  Jurisdiction  in  providing  them  a  Temple 
to  work  in  during  the  building  of  their  permanent  Hall,  Re- 
solved, That  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  be  requested  to  cause 
Bro'"  Francis  to  be  passed  to  the  Chair,  and  that  a  suitable 
Jewel  and  Apron  be  presented  to  him  in  Addition  to  the 
Vote  of  Thanks  already  presented  to  him.  The  Consideration 
of  which  Resolution  was  postponed. 

At  the  next  Adjourned  Communieation,  January  3, 
A.  L.  5803,  we  find: 

The  Resolution  offered  the  IB'*"  Ultimo,  respecting  Bro"". 
William  Francis's  being  passed  to  the  Chair  and  a  Past 
Master's  Jewel  and  Apron  being  presented  him  was  taken 
into  Consideration  and  Adopted  and  Bro""^.  Ferguson,  Pullen 
and  Griffith  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  carry  so  much  of 
the  said  Resolution  as  respects  the  Jewel  and  Apron  into 
effect. 

As  the  new  building  in  Filbert  Street  approached 
completion  it  was  resolved  at  the  Extra  Grand  Com- 
munication held  November  15,  1802 : 

That  the  Building  in  Filbert  Street  purchased  and  pre- 
pared for  the  use  of  this  Grand  Lodge  be  called  and  known 
by  the  Name  of 

''THE  PENNSYLVANIA  FREE  MASON'S  HALL." 

It  was  also  resolved  that  the  hall  should  be  dedi- 
cated with  the  ancient  ceremonial,  and  a  procession 
of  the  brethren.  A  full  account  of  this  interesting 
occasion,  in  which  Lodge  No.  2  was  a  prominent 
factor,   has   been   preserved   in   the   archives    of   the 

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Grand    Lodge,    from    which    following    extracts    are 
made : 

Agreeably  to  the  Resolution  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  6*^^ 
Instant  and  to  the  Arrangement  made  by  the  Committee  ap- 
pointed for  that  purpose,  the  Brethren  assembled  at  the 
Church   of  the  Universalists^   in   Lombard   Street,   between 

^  The  question  has  frequently  occurred,  why  it  was  that  the  Masonic 
Fraternity  upon  that  festive  occasion  assembled  and  started  from 
the  Universalist  Church,  on  the  south  side  of  Lombard  Street,  be- 
tween Fourth  and  Fifth  Street,  then  unfinished  on  the  inside,  being 
without  plaster  on  the  walls  or  galleries.  From  documents  in  the 
compiler's  possession  it  appears  that  Israel  Israel,  John  Vannest 
and  other  prominent  members  of  the  Grand  Lodge  had  become  mem- 
bers of  the  New  Society,  and  the  Pastor,  Rev.  George  Richards  (see 
below),  was  Grand  Chaplain,  who  became  an  enthusiastic  Mason 
and  later  edited  the  Freemason's  Magazine,  published  in  Philadel- 
pia  by  Levis  and  Weaver,  copies  of  which  are  in  the  Grand  Lodge 
Library.  There  is  still  another  interesting  matter  wherein  the  Uni- 
versalists  are  identified  with  the  Masonic  history  of  our  Grand  Lodge. 
When  the  old  Freemasons'  Lodge  on  Lodge  Alley  was  sold  by  the 
Sheriff  as  related  in  chapter  XV,  the  Grand  Lodge  was  outbid  and 
the  property  was  sold  for  $4,000  to  two  members  of  the  newly 
formed  religious  body  called  Universal  Baptists  (UniversaUsts),  who, 
on  January  16,  1786,  united  in  a  deed  of  trust,  in  which  they  de- 
clared that  they  held  the  property  for  the  sole  use  of  the  above 
society.  Henceforth  the  old  Lodge  House  in  a  single  decade  passed 
successively  from  (Modern)  Lodge  House  to  Quaker  prison,  ai-my 
hospital,  hall  of  Grand  Lodge  (Ancients)  and  lastly  it  became  the 
first  church  of  the  Universalist  Society.  Here  preached  the  two 
Winchesters — "  Hell  fire  "  and  Moses — Rev.  John  Murray,  the  cele- 
brated Dr.  Priestly  and  others.  Mrs.  Mary  Ellet,  a  daughter  of 
Israel  Israel,  who  was  an  active  member  of  this  religious  movement, 
describes  the  interior  which  had  been  the  meeting  room  of  the  Pro- 
%dncial  Grand  Lodge,  the  Brethren  upon  vacating  the  Lodge  having 
removed  all  furnishings: 

"  It  was  a  rough  unsightly  structure,  the  room  large  and  unfin- 
ished, the  only  furniture  was  common  wooden  benches,  on  each  side 
of  the  aisle  leading  to  the  primitive  pulpit,  an  unsightly  box,  sur- 
rounded with  benches,  on  which  sat  the  elders  of  the  church.     Later 

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Fourth  and  Fifth  Streets,  at  Nine  o'clock  in  the  Morning 
and  proceeded  from  thence  at  Half  past  Eleven  o'clock  in 
the  following  Order,  (to  wit) 

the  old  lodge  house  was  purchased  by  the  Pennsylvania  Bank,  who 
used  it  as  a  banking  house  until  the  new  marble  bank  on  second 
Street  was  finished,  when  the  old  Lodge  House  of  1755  was  razed, 
and  the  lot  became  part  of  the  park  in  the  rear  of  the  bank. — Mrs. 
Ellet's  "  Recollections." 

The  following  interesting  personal  description  was  found  among 
the  manuscripts  in  the  Historical  Society: 

"  George  Richards. — The  Reverend  Gentleman  was  short  in 
stature,  of  a  square  build,  and  a  somewhat  bulky  person,  with  a 
dark  coarse  skin,  short  black  hair,  and  decidedly  florid  complexion. 
The  cerebral  portion  of  his  head  was  well  developed — his  forehead, 
broad  and  high — had  a  perpendicular  aspect.  His  movements  were 
slow  and  deliberate.  His  countenance,  when  in  repose,  had  a  pen- 
sive, absorbed  rather  melancholy  expression,  but  it  soon  became 
lighted  up,  and  full  of  animation,  when  he  engaged  in  conversation, 
especially  on  subjects  in  which  he  was  much  interested — religion, 
politics,  and  masonry — in  which  latter  he  took  a  very  deep  interest — 
holding  the  Office  of  G.  Chaplain  and  Lecturer,  under  the  appoint- 
ment of  G.  M.  James  IVIilnor,  of  the  G.  Lodge,  A.  Y.  M.  of  Penn- 
sylvania— then  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  and 
subsequently  a  clergyman  of  the  Protestant  Church  (Episcopal), 
ha\'ing  up  to  his  death  the  pastorage  of  the  leading  Episcopal  Church 
of  New  York.  Great  intimacy  and  reciprocal  esteem  existed  be- 
tween the  latter  gentleman  and  Mr.  Richards. 

"  Mr.  R.  was  very  near  sighted  but  wore  no  glasses.  His  sermons 
were  always  carefully  written  out  in  full,  and  then  committed  to 
memory — thus  he  was  enabled  to  deliver  them  without  any  reference 
to  the  manuscript — thus  gi\Tng  to  them  all  the  force  and  elegance 
of  extemporaneous  productions. 

"  Mr.  R.  was  a  profound  classical  scholar,  while  he  was  intimately 
conversant  with  standard  English  Literature. 

"  He  was  of  an  essentially  poetic  temperament ;  and  hence  felt  an 
especial  fondness  for  the  ancient  Hebrew  poems,  which  constitute 
so  large  a  portion  of  the  contents  of  the  '  Old  Testament.'  The 
real  grandeur  of  these  he  was  better  prepared  to  apreciate  from 
being  able  to  read  them  in  the  original,  using  the  pronunciation  cur- 
rent among  the  best  German  Hebriasts." 

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1.  Two  Tylers  with  drawn  Swords. 

2.  Music. 

3.  Two  brethren  with  Wands. 

4.  Master  Masons  Two  and  Two. 

5.  A  Tyler  with  drawn  Sword. 

6.  Two  Brethren  with  Wands. 

7.  Secretaries  and  Treasurers  Two  and  Two. 

8.  Two  Brethren  with  Wands. 

9.  Past  IMasters  Two  and  Two. 

10.  Two  Brethren  with  Wands. 

11.  Wardens  of  Lodges  Two  and  Two. 

12.  Two  Brethren  with  Wands. 

13.  Masters  of  Lodges  Two  and  Two. 

14.  Grand  Tyler  with  drawn  Sword. 

15.  Four  Past  Masters  carrying  the  Lodge,  covered  with  white 

Satin. 

16.  Two  Past  Masters  carrying  Silver  Pitchers,  containing 

Wine  and  Oil. 

17.  Past  Masters  carrying  a  Silver  Pitcher,  containing  Com. 

18.  Members  of  the  Hall  Committee  Two  and  Two  with  White 

Wands. 

19.  Architect  carrying  Square,  Level  and  plumb  rule,  with 

the  Book  of  Architecture. 

20.  The  First  Light  carried  by  the  Master  of  a  Lodge. 

21.  Past  Grand  Sword  bearer  with  a  drawn  Sword. 

22.  Past  Master,  carrying  the  Bible,  Square  and  Compass, 

on  a  Velvet  Cushion  supported  by  Two  Past  Masters. 

23.  Grand  Chaplain. 

24.  Grand  Secretary  with  the  Bag. 

25.  Grand  Treasurer  with  the  staff. 

26.  The  Second  Light,  carried  by  the  Master  of  a  Lodge. 

27.  Past  Junior  Grand  Wardens. 

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28.  Past  Senior  Grand  Wardens. 

29.  Past  Deputy  Grand  Masters. 

30.  Past  Grand  Masters. 

31.  The  Third  Light,  carried  by  the  Master  of  a  Lodge. 

32.  Junior  Grand  Warden  having  the  Junior  Grand  War- 

den Elect  at  his  left  Hand. 

33.  Senior  Grand  Warden  having  the  Senior  Grand  Warden 

Elect  at  his  left  Hand. 
24.  Past  Master  carrying  the  Book  of  Constitutions. 

35.  Grand  Sword  bearer  carrying  the  Sword  of  State. 

36.  Deputy  Grand  Master  having  the  Deputy  Grand  IMaster 

Elect  at  his  left  Hand. 

37.  Grand  Master,  supported  by  the  Grand  Master  Elect  at 

his  left  Hand  and  Bro'".  John  Beatty,  Esq"".,  R.  W. 
Grand  Master  of  New  Jersey  at  his  Right  Hand. 

38.  Grand  Deacons  with  Wands. 

39.  Grand  Pursuivant  with  drawn  Sword. 

When  the  Procession  reached  the  Building  the  Brethren 
halted,  opened  their  ranks  and  the  R.  W.  Grand  ]\Iaster  at- 
tended by  the  R.  W.  Bro''.  Beatty,  Grand  Master  of  New 
Jersey  and  followed  by  the  Grand  Officers  and  a  very  consid- 
erable Number  of  Brethren  were  received  in  the  outer  Apart- 
ment under  a  display  of  ]\Iusic.  On  the  Grand  Master  reach- 
ing Solomon's  Chair  the  present  Giand  Officers  took  their 
Seats  and  the  Elect  and  Past  Grand  Officers,  the  Reverend 
Brethren,  Members  of  the  Hall  Committee  and  other  Brethren 
repaired  to  the  seats  prepared  for  them.  The  Grand  Master 
being  proclaimed,  the  Music  performed  a  Grand  piece  till  all 
the  Members  were  seated.  The  Lodge  was  then  placed  in  the 
Centre  of  the  Hall  and  the  Three  Lights  with  the  Three  Silver 
Pitchers  containing  Corn,  Wine  and  Oil  were  placed  thereon. 
The  Bible,  Square,  Compasses  and  Book  of  Constitutions  on  a 
Crimson  Velvet  Cushion  being  placed  on  the  Pedestal  an 

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Anthem  was  sung.     The  Grand  Master  Ordered  the  Lodge  to 

be  Tyled. 

The  following  Lodges  were  represented,  Viz : 

N°.  2,  Joseph  Burden,  M'-.,^  Thomas  Tatem,  S.  W. ;  3,  9, 
14,  19,  21,  41,  45,  46,  47,  50,  51,  52,  59,  67,  68,  69,  70,  71, 

72,  76,  77,  87,  91,  being  Twenty  Four  Lodges. 

The  Lodge  was  then  uncovered  and  Grand  Lodge  opened 
in  Ample  Form,  when  the  Grand  Master  having  mentioned  to 
the  Brethren  that  he  was  informed  the  Venerable  and  Rever- 
end Bro"".  William  Smith,  D.D.,  Past  Grand  Chaplain  and 
Past  Grand  Secretary,  had  composed  a  Prayer  appropriate 
to  the  Day  the  said  Brother  Smith  with  the  Concurrence  of 
the  Rev^.  Brother  John  Andrews,  D.D.,  Grand  Chaplain,  de- 
livered his  prayer  to  the  general  satisfaction  of  the  Brethren. 

The  Grand  Secretary  intimated  the  Architect's  desire  to 
return  the  implements  entrusted  to  his  Care.  Whereupon, 
Brother  Jackson,  the  Architect,  addressed  the  Grand  Master 
who  expressed  his  high  satisfaction  at  the  completion  of  the 
Hall  and  commanded  the  Grand  Wardens  to  receive  back  the 
implements  which  was  complyed  with  and  they  were  laid  on 
the  Lodge. 

The  Grand  Secretary  then  informed  the  Grand  Master  that 
it  was  the  desire  of  the  Society  to  have  the  Hall  dedicated  to 
Masonry,  on  which  the  Grand  Master  commanded  his  Officers 
to  Assist  in  that  pleasing  Ceremony,  the  Music  mean  while 
playing.      The  Grand  Officers  then  walked  round  the  Lodge 

'  Joseph  Burden,  a  cabinet  and  chair  maker,  became  a  Mason  Au- 
gnst  10,  1795.  He  was  W.  M.  1803,  J.  G.  W.  1809-1810-1811, 
S.  G.  W.  1812  and  1813,  Treasurer  1809  to  1825,  and  Member  of 
Lodge  No.  2  for  forty-five  years  when  he  died,  May,  1840.  His 
son,  Dr.  Jesse  R.  Burden,  was  made  a  Master  Mason,  March,  1820. 
He  was  a  well-known  physician  and  for  some  years  a  member  of  the 
Legislature.  A  grandson,  Jesse  R.  Burden,  Jr.,  was  made  a  Master 
Mason  in  March,  1864. 

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Three  different  Times  stopping  each  Time  for  the  Ceremony 
of  dedication.  At  the  end  of  the  First  Procession,  the  Music 
being  silent,  the  Grand  Master  strewing  Corn  over  the  Lodge 
declared  in  solemn  form  the  Hall  dedicated  to  Masonry,  which 
being  proclaimed  by  the  Grand  Secretary  the  Grand  Honours 
were  given.  At  the  end  of  the  Second  Procession,  the  Music 
being  silent,  the  Grand  Master  pouring  Wine  over  the  Lodge 
declared  in  solemn  form  the  Hall  dedicated  to  Virtue  and 
Science,  which  being  proclaimed  by  the  Grand  Secretary  the 
Grand  Honours  were  given  as  before.  At  the  end  of  the 
Third  Procession,  the  Music  being  silent,  the  Grand  Master 
pouring  Oil  on  the  Lodge  in  solemn  form  declared  the  Hall 
dedicated  to  Universal  Charity  and  Benevolence  which  being 
proclaimed  by  the  Grand  Secretary  the  Grand  Honours  were 
given  as  before.  A  Grand  Anthem  adopted  to  the  occasion 
set  to  Music  by  Bro*".  Reinagle  was  sung  by  Bro'"^.  Reinagle, 
Wood  and  Fox,  and 

The  Grand  Master  returned  to  Solomon's  Chair  under  the 
acclamations  of  the  Brethren  and  the  Music  performing 
"When  Earths  Foundation  first  was  laid,  &•=." 

The  Grand  Master  was  then  pleased  to  deliver  an  Affec- 
tionate Address  which  was  received  by  the  Brethren  with  the 
most  lively  tokens  of  Gratitude  and  Acknowledgement  and 
their  Approbation  was  testified  in  the  usual  Form. 

The  Ceremony  of  Dedication  being  compleated,  so  much  of 
the  Minutes  of  the  6^^  Instant  as  relates  to  the  Election  of 
Grand  Officers  was  read.  Whereupon,  the  Grand  Master  Or- 
dered Bro"".  Peter  Le  Barbier  Duplessis,  Past  Grand  Secretary, 
a  very  Ancient  and  expert  Mason,  to  proceed  to  the  Installa- 
tion of  the  Grand  Officers  elect,  and  accordingly 

The  R.  W.  Bro'".  Israel  Israel,  Esq'".,  was  installed  Grand 

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Master,  invested,  proclaimed  and  saluted  according  to 
Ancient  Form. 

The  R.  W.  Bro"".  John  Armantiere  Monges,  M.  D.,  D.  G.  M. 

The  R.  W.  Bro'.  Ebenezer  Ferguson,  Esq^,  S.  G.  W. 

The  R.  W.  Bro""  George  Adam  Baker,  Esq"".,  Grand  Secre- 
tary. 

The  Junior  Grand  Warden  and  Grand  Treasurer  elect  not 
attending,  their  installation  was  postponed  till  the  next  Com- 
munication. 

On  Motion  made  and  Seconded,  Resolved  Unanimously, 
that  the  Thanks  of  this  Grand  Lodge  be  given  to  the  R.  W. 
Bro"".  Jonathan  Bayard  Smith,  Esq*".,  late  Grand  Master  for 
his  affectionate,  instructing  and  Brotherly  address  and  that 
it  is  their  desire  he  would  be  pleased  to  deliver  a  Copy  of  the 
same  to  be  entered  on  the  Minutes  for  the  instruction  of  the 
Brethren.  His  Worship  was  pleased  to  promise  the  requested 
Copy. 

Resolved,  that  the  Thanks  of  this  Grand  Lodge  be  given 
to  the  Venerable  and  Reverend  Bro"".  William  Smith,  D.D., 
for  his  appropriate  prayer,  also  to  the  Reverend  Brethren 
of  the  Clergy  who  have  assisted  in  the  Duties  of  the  Day, 
and  to  Bro'".  Reinagle,  Wood  and  Fox  who  assisted  so  essen- 
tially in  the  service  of  the  Day  as  well  as  to  the  Members  of 
the  Hall  Committee  for  their  great  Assiduity  and  Zeal  in  the 
business  committed  to  their  care. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  impressed  with  a  grate- 
ful sense  of  the  long  assiduous  and  highly  useful  labours  of 
their  late  R.  W.  Grand  Master,  Bro""  Jonathan  Bayard  Smith, 
Esq'".,  previous  to  and  during  his  service  in  the  high  Station 
which  he  has  left. 

Resolved  Unanimously,  That  as  a  further  Testimony  of  the 
Affection,  regard  and  Veneration  of  this  Grand  Lodge  for 

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Our  said  Brother  Jonathan  Bayard  Smith,  Esquire,  he  be 
presented  with  a  Past  Grand  Masters  Jewell  of  Gold. 

George  A.  Baker, 
Grand  Secretary. 

Continuation  of  Minutes  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

January  10,  JS05.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  14  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors.  Balance  in  Treasurer's  hand 
$57.58.  Bros  Kane  and  Farr  were  appointed 
Stewards. 

A  Petition  was  Presented  and  read  from  the  widow 
of  our  late  Br  Francis  Mason  stating  her  Situation 
of  being  left  with  3  small  Children  and  requesting 
such  assistance  as  this  lodge  shall  see  fit  to  grant  her 
— whereon,  Resolved,  that  a  Committee  be  appointed 
and  twenty  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that 
purpose. 

A  Petition  was  presented  and  read  from  Br.  Adam 
Hoover  late  Member  of  this  lodge,  stating  his  unfor- 
tunate Situation  in  having  his  house  and  furniture 
Interely  Consumed  by  fire  during  his  absence  from 
home  and  his  wife  and  Children  no  place  left  to  put 
their  heads— now  request  assistance  of  this  Lodge, 
whereon  Resolved  that  a  Committee  be  appointed  and 
ten  Dollars  in  their  hands  for  his  use.  Eeferred  to 
the  same  Committee. 

February  14,  iS(?5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17 
members  and  7  Visitors. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Petition 
of  Adam  Hoover,  Report  that  they  found  him  in  Dis- 
tress and  Granted  him  ten  Dollars. 

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The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  Petition 
of  the  widow  Mason  Report  that  they  had  found  her 
in  Distress  and  had  granted  her  twenty  Dollars 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  a  Br.  Tack- 
holm  Setting  forth  his  distressed  Situation  and  re- 
questing such  relief  as  they  shall  see  fit.  A  Com- 
mittee was  appointed  of  Br^.  Pullen,  Phillips  and 
Burden,  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that 
purpose. 

''On  motion  made  and  seconded  Eesolved,  That  a 
further  loan  of  100  Dollars  be  granted  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  which  was  agreed  to  and  an  Order  drawn  on 
the  Treasurer  for  the  same." 

February  28,  i(S05.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
14  members  and  4  Visitors. 

The  Petition  of  John  Hamilton  a  P.  M.  of  No  42 
State  of  New- York  Stating  his  Situation  and  request- 
ing such  relief  as  to  enable  him  to  proceed  home  to 
his  Family.  It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  three 
Dollars  be  granted  for  the  purpose  of  Defraying  part 
of  his  Expenses,  and  Br  Pullen  was  requested  to  pay 
the  same. 

A  Dispensation  was  presented  and  read  from  the 
R.  W.  G.  Master  authorising  and  empowring  us  to 
pass  to  the  Degree  of  the  Chair  Br.  Eo''*.  Allen  a 
member  of  our  Lodge. 

A  past  Masters'  Lodge  was  opened  and  B""  Eob*. 
Allen  was  Passed  to  the  Degree  of  the  Chair  in 
ancient  form. 

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''  It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  there  be  a  few 
pages  left  in  the  Treasurer's  Book  for  the  insertion 
of  those  names  in  Large  Characters,  who  have  made 
private  subscription  to  the  Building  and  that  Bros 
Burden  and  Tatem  be  a  committee  for  that  purpose." 

March  14,  i(S(?5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers and  4  Visitors.  ''A  complaint  was  presented 
from  Lodge  No  71  against  Bro  Wm.  Allen  for  im- 
proper conduct  in  said  Lodge,  a  committee  was  ap- 
pointed viz,  the  three  Officers  of  the  Lodge  to  meet 
either  Lodge  No  71  or  a  Committee  of  it  to  investi- 
gate the  business  and  report  thereon"— '^ Resolved 
That  Five  Dollars  out  of  every  Initiation  Fee  be  paid 
to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Building  Committee  and  that 
the  same  be  a  Donation." 

''On  motion  made  and  seconded  Resolved  That  the 
Initiation  Fees  of  this  Lodge  be  raised  from  25  Dolls 
to  30  Dollars,  ordered  to  lie  over  for  discussion  the 
usual  time." 

Steward's  Tyler's  Bills  were  read  amounting  to 
$11.93  and  ordered  to  be  paid. 

March  14,  iS()5.  — Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers and  4  visitors. 

Bro  Stafford  was  examined  in  Open  Lodge  and 
found  worthy  to  be  passed  to  the  degree  of  a  Fellow 
Craft.  "It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  Bro 
Marshall  be  authorized  to  procure  2  Doz  plain  Aprons 
for  the  use  of  the  Lodge 

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Bros  Ennis  &  Quinn  recommended  to  Pass  the 
Chair 

March  28,  ^8^5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  14  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors  "A  Recomendatory  Letter  was  re- 
ceived and  read  from  the  Grand  Secretary  to  pay 
over  that  part  of  the  Initiation  Fees  which  may  be 
appropriated  by  the  Lodge  to  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Building  Committee"  ''A  Letter  was  received  from 
the  Grand  Secretary  enforming  the  Lodge  that  there 
is  one  Jno  Chapman  making  application  thro  the  City 
and  is  a  worthless  character" 

Bro  Stafford  was  examined  in  Open  Lodge  on  the 
two  degrees  that  he  had  taken  and  was  found  worthy 
to  be  Raised  to  the  Sublime  degree  of  a  Master 
Mason— time  not  permitting  it  was  postponed  till  next 
meeting"     Lodge  closed  at  10  o'clock  in  Harmony. 

April  11,  1803.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  14  mem- 
bers &  5  Visitors.  "  A  Dispensation  was  received 
and  read  from  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  empowering  us  to 
Enter  Pass  &  Raise  to  the  Sublime  Degree  of  a 
Master  Mason  John  Collyer,  a  Mariner  which  was 
agreed  to." 

"The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  com- 
plaint from  No  71  against  Bro  Wm  Allen  of  this 
Lodge:  Report  that  they  believe  it  was  not  done  with 
an  intent  to  insult  the  Grand  Officers  but  to  stop  the 
Brethren  from  clapping  longer  than  usual,  that  it 
was  not  a  hiss  but  a  hush'^ 

''On  motion  made  and  seconded;  Resolved,   That 

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a  Fine  of  Two  Dolls  be  attached  to  the  office  of  Secre- 
tary for  not  writing  notices  for  stated  and  extra 
nights  ordered  to  lie  over  for  discussion  for  3  nights 

April  16,  1505.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  8  members, 
Bro  Quin,  passed  to  the  Chair  in  Ancient  form. 
Lodge  closed  at  7  0 'Clock 

April  16,  iS05.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  8 
members,  3  Raised 

May  9,  iS05.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17  members 
&  2  Visitors. 

A  Communication  was  Received  and  read  from  the 
Right  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  Containing  a  list  of 
Expulsions  and  Rejections  from  the  Different  lodges 
under  their  jurisdiction,  together  with  a  list  of  Ex- 
pulsions and  Rejections  communicated  by  other  Grand 
Lodges 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  a  Br  Rene, 
Gatier  a  M.  Mason  praying  relief,  whereon  a  Com- 
mittee of  Br^  Burden,  Rayner  and  Phillips  was  ap- 
pointed and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  Hands  for 
his  relief  as  they  Shall  see  fit. 

''A  motion  was  made  seconded  and  agreed  to  'That 
Bros  Pullen  «&  Burden  be  a  Committee  to  receive 
from  the  Grand  Lodge  a  Certificate  for  the  amount 
of  the  sum  loaned  by  this  Lodge  to  the  Grand  Lodge 
and  that  the  same  be  deposited  with  the  Treasurer.' 

'  *  The  Resolve  that  lay  over  on  our  Books  was  taken 
up,  on  raising  the  Initiation  Fee,  on  the  sense  of  the 
Lodge  being  taken  it  was  negatived 

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May  13,  J(S(?5.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  12  members 
&  1  Visitor  A  Dispensation  was  read  to  E.  P.  &  E. 
Jno.  Lancaster  which  was  acted  vqyon 

June  13,  J[<S^5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16  mem- 
bers "On  motion  made  and  seconded  Resolved  That 
Bro.  Casper  Graff  be  exonerated  from  all  his  dues 
except  his  Grand  Lodge  Dues  for  the  service  he 
renders  this  Lodge;  agreed  to."  Election.  Thos 
Tatem  W  M  Thos  Raynor  S  W  Wm  Farr  J.  W.  Jno 
Phillips  Secty  and  Robert  Pullen— Trea.s''  The 
W.  M.  appointed  Bro  Jasper  Carter  S  D.  S.  W. 
appointed  Bro  Stephen  Clayton  J  D  Bro  Schneider 
was  reappointed  Tyler  "Bros  Marshall  and  Kane 
were  appointed  Stewards  for  the  ensuing  six  months 
which  was  agreed  to" 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Rachel  Mooney  pray- 
ing relief  was  read  referred  to  a  Committee  of  Br^. 
Burden,  Pullen  and  Farr,  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in 
their  hands  for  her  use  if  they  see  fit. 

A  petition  from  Sarah  Corson  widow  of  Jacob 
Corson  praying  Relief  was  read,  the  same  Committee 
was  appointed  with  the  power  of  Granting  her  a  sum 
not  exceeding  twenty  Dollars  as  they  shall  see  fit 

A  Bill  from  Br  Marshall  for  2  doz.  Aprons  amount- 
ing to  Six  Pounds  was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

A  Bill  from  Br  McLaughlin  for  printing  Notices 
and  bye-laws  amounting  to  19  Dollars  ordered  to  be 
paid. 

A  Resolve  was  presented  and  read,  ordered  to  lie 

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over  for  discussion  (viz:)  That  if  any  member  of 
this  lodge  should  be  reported  as  a  Gambler,  that  a 
Committee  should  be  appointed  to  Enquire  into  the 
facts  and  should  this  be  against  such  member,  he 
shall  be  Suspended  for  6  months  and  if  he  continues 
in  that  practise  on  a  second  report  of  the  same  in  like 
Manner  being  against  him,  he  Shall  be  Excluded  this 
Lodge  and  never  again  admitted  a  member  thereof. 

The  Lodge  adjourned  till  Saturday  the  18  inst  at  5 
o'clock  in  the  evening. 

June  18,  iS(? 5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  6 
members  «&  1  visitor.  They  met  for  the  Special 
purpose  of  installing  the  Officers  for  the  ensuing 
six  months,  the  whole  not  attending  it  was  postponed 
till  to  morning  at  6  o'clock. 

June  19,  1803.— Adjourned  Lodge.  6  a.  m.  Pres- 
ent 5  members  &  2  Visitors.  Officers  elect  duly 
installed.     Lodge  closed  at  9  o'clock. 

July  11,  i(505.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  13  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors.  Balance  in  Treasurers  hands 
$49.48  with  the  Loan  granted  to  Grand  Lodge  amount- 
ing in  the  whole  to  $399.48 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  reffered  the  petition 
of  the  widow  Corson,  Keported  that  they  found  her 
in  Distress  and  granted  her  20  Dollars 

August  8,  i(S6'5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  11  mem- 
bers &  5  Visitors. 

September  12,  i86>5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  12 
members 

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John  Eain  who  was  Suspended  for  three  months 
agreable  to  the  6^^  Sect,  of  our  bye  Laws  on  Feb''  28 
by  the  latter  part  of  the  same  law,  was  totally  Ex- 
cluded from  this  lodge  and  never  more  to  be  admitted 
a  member. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded  that  the  Lodge  do 
proceed  to  Lectuer  which  was  agreed  to  and  Br 
Phillip  was  requested  to  give  the  lectuer.  Accord- 
ingly Br  Phillips  went  thro'  the  first  Lectuer. 

October  10,  i<505.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  11  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors 

Daniel  B.  Otto  who  was  balloted  for  on  the  Eleventh 
of  July,  but  not  having  it  in  his  power  to  come  for- 
ward during  his  Stay  in  the  City;  However  he  has 
notwithstanding  Paid  his  Iniation  fee  to  the  Worship- 
full  Master,  which  has  been  by  him  paid  over  into  the 
hands  of  the  Treasurer;  as  will  appear  by  his  books. 

November  14,  i805.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17 
members  &  3  Visitors  '*Wm  Brown  Knowles  whose 
Petition  had  lain  on  the  Books  since  October  12'^ 
1801  and  a  Committee  appointed  but  never  had  re- 
ported; on  motion  the  same  Committee  was  requested 
to  make  the  necessary  enquiries  and  report  the  same 
on  Saturday  the  19  inst,"  Lodge  adjourned  till  Satur- 
day evening  6  o'clock 

November  19,  i<SC>5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
14  members  &  3  Visitors 

W  B  Knowles  elected  &  received  the  Entered  Ap- 
prentice Degree 

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A  petition  was  received  from  Nicholas  Neyl  pray- 
ing assistance;  It  was  moved  and  Seconded  that  his 
petition  be  returned  him;  Agreed  to. 

November  28,  iS05.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  13 
members  &  3  Visitors. 

December  12,  i(S^5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  18 
members  &  7  Visitors.  Election  Thos  Eaynor  W  M, 
J  Carter  S  W  Quin  J  W  Jno  Kane  Secty  Rob^ 
Pullen  Treas""  ''The  following  Resolve  was  sub- 
mitted to  the  Lodge  as  a  Bye  Law  in  these  words 
Resolved  That  the  Secretary  of  Lodge  No  2  received 
for  his  Services  the  sum  of  Twenty  Dollars  per 
annum  with  this  proviso  that  for  non  attendance  to 
perform  the  duties  of  the  same  either  on  Stated  or 
Extra  nights  the  sum  of  One  Dollar  be  deducted  for 
every  such  non  attendance"  Officers  elect  were  then 
duly  installed 

Applications  7  Approved  8  Affiliations  2  With- 
drawals 3     Expelled  1     Dispensation  2 

January  9,  :Z8(?4.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  10  mem- 
bers and  1  visitor  Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands 
$66.17  and  $350.  loaned  to  the  Grand  Lodge  Moved 
and  seconded  to  amend  the  Resolutions  laid  on  the 
Table  on  the  12th  ultimo  by  inserting  after  the  words 
non  attendance  on  the  6'^  line  the  following  words 
"Except  in  case  of  necessity."  Bro  S  Clayton  ap- 
pointed S.  D.— Bro  0 'Brian,  J.  D.  Bro.  Maquire 
M.  C— Bro  Phelps  &  Marshall  Stewards 

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February  13,  iS^^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  24 
members  «fc  3  Visitors. 

The  Petition  of  Peter  Grant  was  read  praying  to 
be  initiated  into  the  Mysteries  of  Free  Masonry  &  a 
Committee  appointed  to  make  the  necessary  En- 
quiries consisting  of  Neil,  Wymar  &  Pullen. 

The  Petition  of  Margaretta  Hall  was  read  praying 
for  relief  &  a  Committee  appointed  for  the  purpose 
of  relieving  if  found  in  necessity,  Consisting  of 
Brothers  R,  Allen,  Pullen  &  Burden  with  Power  to 
give  Eight  Dollars. 

The  Petition  of  Adam  Keyser  was  read  praying  for 
relief  &  a  Committee  appointed  for  that  purpose  Con- 
sisting of  Brothers  Nield,  Wimar  and  Pullen,  with 
power  to  give  five  Dollars  if  found  in  want. 

"A  Resolution  laid  on  the  Table  by  Bros  Marshall 
&  Phillips  purporting  to  empower  them  to  procure 
refreshments  for  the  Lodge  to  the  amount  of  Twelve 
Dollars  ordered  to  lie  over  the  usual  time" 

March  12,  iS04.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers &  7  Visitors 

The  Petition  of  Fanny  Littlewood  praying  for  re- 
lief was  read,  and  a  Committee  app*.  for  that  purpose 
of  Brothers  Pullen,  Burden  &  the  Worshipful  Master, 
&  Twenty  Dollars  Lodged  in  their  hands  for  that 
purpose. 

The  Petition  of  James  Murtaugh  praying  for  relief 
was  read.  But  having  died  some  days  previous  to  our 
stated  meeting,   it  was   moved  &   seconded  that  his 

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widow  be  relieved  with  25  Dollars,  and  a  Committee 
appointed  for  that  purpose. 

March  27,  J8^4.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  13  mem- 
bers &  1  Visitor. 

Brother  Noble  Luke  Usher  was  Examined  in  open 
Lodge  &  found  worthy  to  be  passed  to  the  Degree  of 
a  Fellow  Craft. 

March  30,  1504.— Present  7  members  Bro  Wm 
"Warren  Passed  to  the  Chair 

April  9,  i(S^4.— Present  22  members  &  2  Visitors. 
The  following  communication  from  the  Grand  Lodge 
was  read. 

"At  a  Grand  Quarterly  Communication  held  at 
Philadelphia  on  Monday  the  5'^  day  of  December 
A  L  5803  in  Ample  form. 

"The  Grand  Lodge  proceeded  to  an  Election  for 
Officers  for  the  ensuing  year  and  Bro  Israel  Israel 
Esq  late  High  Sheriff  of  the  City  and  County  of 
Philada  was  reelected  R  W  Grand  Master 

"Bro  James  Milnor  Esq  Attorney  and  Counsellor 
at  Law,  was  elected  E,  W  Deputy  Grand  Master 

"Bro  Ebenezer  Ferguson  Esq  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  the  County  of  Philadelphia  was  Reelected 
R  W  Senior  Grand  Warden 

"Bro  Robert  Pullen,  Silver  Plater  was  reelected 
R  W  Junior  Grand  Warden 

"Bro  George  A.  Baker,  Treasurer  of  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  was  reelected  R  W  Grand  Secretary. 

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"Bro  Gaven  Hamilton,  Merchant  was  reelected 
Grand  Treasurer." 

Brothers  Tedball,  Meguire  &  Neild  returned,  and 
gave  thanks  and  received  a  Lecture  in  the  first  De- 
gree of  Masonry. 

The  Petition  of  Catharine  Frank  was  read  praying 
for  relief.  Also  the  Petition  of  Jane  Camphell  was 
read  praying  for  relief  and  a  Committee  app^.  of  Brs. 
O'Brien  W"  Allen  &  Carter,  and  ten  Dollars  Lodged 
in  their  hand  for  that  purpose. 

The  Petition  of  Brother  John  Johnson  was  read 
praying  for  relief.  Moved  &  seconded  that  the 
Worshipful  Master  be  Empowered  to  give  him  five 
Dollars.    Agreed  to. 

Provincial  Grand  Lodge  in  the  Island  of  Saint 
Domingo  mentioned 

May  14,  1804.—Stated  Lodge.  Present  16  mem- 
bers &  6  Visitors. 

The  Petition  of  William  Daly,  praying  for  relief 
was  read  &  a  Committee  appointed  to  write  to  New 
York  in  respect  to  his  standing  there,  of  Brothers 
Pullen,  Philips  &  Tatem  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in 
their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

The  Petition  of  Chedal  was  read  praying  for  relief 
Moved  &  Seconded  that  Brother  Treasurer  be  Em- 
powered to  give  him  ten  Dollars.  Carried  in  the 
affirmitive. 

Map  19,  i(S6>4.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  11 
members 

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Monday,  May  28,  i56>4.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Pres- 
ent 14  members 

June  11,  i5(?4.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16  mem- 
bers &  2  Visitors  ''The  Resolution  which  was  laid 
on  the  Table  on  our  Stated  Meeting  of  February  13"* 
1804  for  the  augmentation  of  Four  Dollars  for  re- 
freshment was  taken  up  and  finally  agreed  to" 
Election  Bro  Rainer  W  M  Carter  S  W  S  Clayton 
J.  W.  Kean  Secty  E,  Pullen  Treas""  Bros  Farr  & 
Tatem  were  appointed  Stewards  Bro  Schneider  was 
reappointed  Tyler 

The  Lodge  called  from  Labour  to  refreshment  for 
a  short  space  of  time. 

''Adjourned  until  Sunday  Morning  next  at  Six 
o'clock" 

June  17,  i(S(?4.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  9 
members  Officers  Listalled  Bros  0  Brian  appointed 
S.  D.  &  Grant,  J.  D,  Lodge  closed  at  7  a.  m. 

July  9,  1804.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  15  members 
&  1  visitor  Balance  in  Treasurers  hand  $199.96^ 
besides  $350.  loaned  to  the  Grand  Lodge  on  Interest 

The  Petition  of  Mary  Gatier  praying  for  Relief  was 
read  &  a  Committee  appt^.  of  Brothers  Rayner,  Pul- 
len &  Clayton,  with  power  to  give  10  Dollars.  Also 
of  Samuel  Simpson  praying  relief;  moved  and 
seconded  that  he  have  leave  to  withdraw  his  petition. 
Carried  in  the  affirmative.  Also  of  S.  M.  Marks 
praying  relief,  &  the  former  Committee  appointed 
for  that  purpose  empowered  to  give  5  Dollars. 

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July  23,  iS(?4.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  16 
members 

August  13,  1804.Sisited  Lodge.  Present  17  mem- 
bers &  6  Visitors. 

September  10,  1804. —Stated  Lodge.  Present  18 
members  &  2  Visitors  Moved  and  seconded  that  one 
thousand  notices  be  procured  for  the  use  of  the 
Lodge"  Resolved  the  words  "a  plain  white  apron 
be  struck  out  of  the  7'*"  Section  of  our  Bye  laws 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  Petition  of  Samuel 
McClemons  reported  unfavorably  of  him,  was  bal- 
loted for  and  rejected,  there  appearing  nine  Black 
Balls  against  him  and  was  consequently  rejected. 

September  24,  1804.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
13  members  &  2  Visitors 

October  8,  i<5<94.— Present  19  members  &  6  Visitors 
adjourned  to  the  5'^  Monday 

October  22,  iS6?4.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  13 
members  &  6  Visitors 

November  12,  iS^4.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  26 
members  &  4  Visitors 

The  Committee  appointed  to  enquire  into  the  Char- 
acter of  W".  Dififibach  reported  unfavorable  of  him, 
was  Balloted  for  and  rejected,  there  being  Eleven 
Black  Balls  against  him. 

Israel  Israel  Esq.  E.  W.  G.  M.  was  announced  & 
the  usual  Ceremonies  were  performed  towards  him 
&  and  took  a  seat  as  Past  Master. 

The  Petition  of  Benjamin  Kann  was  read  praying 

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relief  moved  and  seconded  that  a  Committee  be  ap- 
pointed with  power  to  give  Five  Dollars,  of  Br^ 
P.  Meguire,  W"".  Allen  &  Leese.  Also  one  from 
Martha  Walker  praying  relief  and  10  Dollars  placed 
in  a  Committee's  hands  for  that  purpose. 

November  21,  JSO^.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  9 
members 

A  Dispensation  from  the  R.  W.  Gr.  M.  was  read 
Empowering  Lodge  No  2  To  Enter,  Pass  &  Raise  to 
the  Sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason,  Michael  Gra- 
ham, Mariner,  he  not  having  it  in  his  power  to  wait 
the  usual  time  required  by  our  Bye  Laws,  on  which 
acct.  the  Lodge  was  called. 

Master  Masons  Lodge  closed  &  a  Past  Master's 
opened.  A  Dispensation  from  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  was 
read  empowering  No.  2  to  pass  to  the  degree  of  the 
Chair  Brother  John  Floyd,  agreed  to.  Brother  Jn°. 
Floyd  being  in  waiting  was  brought  forward  and 
passed  to  the  degree  of  the  Chair,  And  saluted  as 
such  in  ancient  form. 

November  20,  :ZS04.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
12  members  &  5  Visitors 

An  Entered  Apprentices'  Lodge  was  open  in  due 
form  &;  the  minutes  of  the  last  stated  &  Extra  meet- 
ings were  read. 

December  10,  i804.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  24 
members.  R.  W.  G.  M.  visited— Election,  Bros.  Thos 
Rayner,  W.  M.— Jasper  Carter,  S.  W.— Stephen  Clay- 
ton,   J.    W.— John    Phillips,    Sect'y— Robert    Pullen, 

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Treas''.  Bro  0,  Brian  was  appointed  by  W.  M.  S.  D. 
&  Bro  Grant,  was  appointed  by  S.  W.  Junior  Deacon 
Bros  Grossman  &  DeSilver  Stewards,  ''Moved  and 
seconded  that  tbe  Members  of  Lodge  No  2  dine  to- 
gether on  St  John's  day  next,  agreed  to  Moved  and 
seconded  that  Fifty  Dolls  be  appropriated  for  that 
purpose  agreed  to"  Moved  and  seconded  that  a 
Committee  of  3  be  appointed  to  make  the  necessary 
arrangements  for  the  Dinner,  agreed  to  Committee 
Bros  Pullen,  Burden  &  Phillips. 

December  12,  i5(?4.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
5  members  &  5  Visitors  including  R.  W.  G.  M.  Israel. 

Officers  Installed— Applications,  25.  Approved,  22. 
Dispensation,  1.  Rejected,  3.  Afi&liations,  2.  With- 
drawals, 2. 

January  14,  i505.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17 
members  &  3,  Visitors.  Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands 
$371.51  and  a  loan  to  Grand  Lodge  of  $350.  Total 
assets  $721.51 

A  petition  was  presented  and  read  from  the  widow 
McFee  late  a  member  of  this  Lodge  requesting  as- 
sistance, a  Committee  was  appointed  of  Bro\  Mar- 
shall, Farr  and  W".  Maguire  and  fifteen  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose,  to  grant  her 
such  relief  as  may  appear  to  them  necessary. 

The  Delinquent  Members  of  this  Lodge  was  taken 
up.  Brs.  Wister  &  Moser  was  on  Motion  Made  and 
Seconded  laid  over  for  further  Consideration. 

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Benj°.  Hall  was  Expelled  from  our  Lodge  agreable 
to  the  bye-Laws  for  non-Payment  of  Dues. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  Eliz^**.  Hall 
requesting  assistance,  it  was  moved  and  Seconded 
that  20  Doll,  be  placed  in  the  hand  of  a  Committee 
of  Bro^  PuUen,  Phillips  &  Clayton,     agreed  to. 

February  11,  i505.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  24 
members  &  10  Visitors  &  P  G  M  Smith 

The  Petition  of  Rob*.  Orr  of  No.  59  was  Received 
and  read  requesting  relief  of  this  lodge,  a  Committee 
was  appointed  of  Br^.  W™.  Allen,  Winter  &  Philip 
Maguire  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  to 
grant  him  as  they  saw  relief.  Also  a  petition  from 
Catharine  Kuhn  widow  of  M.  Kuhn  Esqu''  deceased 
requesting  relief.  Also  one  from  Mary  Mason,  widow 
of  Francis  Mason,  late  a  member  of  this  Lodge,  for 
Relief,  these  cases  referred  to  separate  Committees 
and  amounts  of  8  and  10  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands 
for  that  purpose. 

March  11,  i<S05.— Present  19  members,  ''Capt* 
Drevis  requested  the  Lodge  to  grant  him  a  Certificate 
for  the  purpose  of  travelling,  he  having  been  ship- 
wrecked had  lost  the  one  he  held  with  all  his  property, 
On  motion  made  and  seconded  Resolved  That  Bros 
Pullen  Burden  &  Phillips  be  a  Committee  to  procure 
a  Grand  Lodge  Certificate  and  present  the  same  to 
Captain  Drevis  at  the  expense  of  the  Lodge,  owing 
to  his  late  misfortunes." 

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Sunday  Morning,  April  7,  i86>5.— Extra  Lodge. 
Present  5  members  «&  1  visitor 

''This  Lodge  was  called  on  purpose  to  initiate 
Daniel  B  Otto  who  was  ballotted  for  July  11^*^  1803 
and  paid  his  Initiation  Fee" 

He  being  in  waiting  was  brought  forward  and 
Initiated  into  the  first  degree  of  Masonry  in  antient 
form.  Returned  and  gave  thanks  and  received  their 
usual  Instructions. 

April  8,  JS05.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  15  members 
&  2  Visitors.  ''Resolution  of  March  14^*^  1803  Donat- 
ing Five  Dolls  out  of  every  Initiation  Fee  was  re- 
scinded 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  Br  Rob\ 
Taylor  late  a  member  of  No.  9  Requesting  assistance, 
also  one  from  Br.  Casper  Graff,  a  member  of  this 
lodge,  also  one  from  Sarah  Cox,  widow  of  Cap\  Cox, 
late  a  member  of  No.  51,  each  was  referred  to  a  sep- 
arate Committee  and  relief  placed  in  their  hands  to 
give  as  they  shall  see  fit 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  Petition  of  the 
widow  Kenny  Report  that  they  found  her  in  Distress 
and  granted  her  ten  Dollars. 

May  13,  iS05.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers &  15  Visitors.  "A  communication  was  re- 
ceived from  the  R.  W.  G.  L  containing  a  list  of  the 
Officers  of  the  G.  L.  for  the  present  year  with  an 
account  of  the  Expulsion  and  Rejection  from  the 
different   Lodges   under   this   Jurisdiction   also   from 

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the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  and  Ireland  and  the 
different  States  of  the  Union,  ordered  to  be  de- 
posited among  the  Archives  of  this  Lodge"  The 
R  W  G  M  was  announced  with  his  Officers  to  pay 
their  Annual  Grand  visit  to  Lodge  No  2  they  were 
received  with  the  Ancient  Ceremonies" 

''The  Grand  Master  having  taken  the  Chair,  re- 
quested his  Officers  to  take  their  places  which  being 
done,  his  G  Secty  was  requested  to  examine  the 
minutes  of  this  Lodge  which  he  did  from  the  com- 
mencement of  1803  and  reported  that  they  were  all 
kept  in  a  regular  manner  excepting  one  instance, 
which  was  the  rejection  of  a  person  to  be  initiated 
on  one  evening  and  reconsidering  and  rescinding  it 
with  a  less  number  present  than  at  the  rejection. 
The  Grand  Master  returned  his  thanks  to  Lodge  No. 
2  for  their  regularity  in  their  proceedings,  hoped  they 
would  continue  to  perserve  in  the  grand  object  of 
improvement  in  Masonic  disquisition  he  took  notice 
of  the  Eeport  of  the  Secty  on  y^  the  Rejection  &c 
declared  it  unmasonic,  hoped  for  the  future  they 
would  be  more  guarded"  ''Lodge  closed  in  form 
with  a  prayer  by  the  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Master 
at  half  past  10  o'clock" 

June  10,  iS(?5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  28  mem- 
bers Election— Jasper  Carter,  W.  M.  Stephen  Clay- 
ton, S.  W.-John  0 'Brian,  J.  W.  Jno.  Phillips  Secty 
&  Rob*  Pullen  Treas""  "Bro  Pullen  made  a  report 
of  a  deficiency  on  the  Dinner  on  St  John's  day,  re- 

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f erred  to  the  Committee  of  Accounts"  ''Lodge 
adjourned  until  3rd  Wednesday  5  o'clock" 

June  19,  iS^5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  7 
members  &  2  Visitors.  Officers  Installed.  W.  M. 
appointed  Bro.  Grant,  S.  D.  Bro.  Desilver,  J.  D.  Br. 
Schnyder  Tyler  Bros  Grossman  and  Raynor  Stewards 

July  8,  i8C>5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  members 
&  7  Visitors  "The  Committee  appointed  to  examine 
the  accounts  of  the  Treasurer;  Report  that  they  have 
attended  to  that  duty  and  find  the  same  correct  and 
that  there  remains  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer 
$308.17  a  Note  of  Valentine  Bear  for  $20  and  Loan 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  $350.  Total  $678.17"  (signed) 
Jasper  Carter  W  M  Stephen  Clayton  S  W  Jno 
0  Brian  J  W" 

The  Committee  on  the  widow  Pitcher  Report  that 
they  found  her  an  object  worthy  of  relief  and  granted 
her  the  ten  Dollars. 

July  22,  iS^5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  13 
members  &  5  Visitors. 

August  12,  i8<95.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17  mem- 
bers &  3  Visitors. 

September  9,  i(S05.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  13 
members  &  2  Visitors. 

A  Petition  was  Presented  and  read  from  Br.  Henry 
Wister  requesting  the  Lodge  to  take  his  Case  into 
Consideration  and  to  forgive  him  half  his  dues  he 
being  willing  to  pay  the  remainder,  on  which  a  Com- 
mittee was  appointed  of  Bro^  Phillips  Desilver  and 

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Grossman  to  Enquire  into  the  merits  of  his  Case  and 
to  report  the  same.  A  Petition  was  presented  from 
a  Br.  Cha^  Monagany  requesting  assistance,  after 
some  Discussion,  he  had  leave  to  withdraw  his  Peti- 
tion. 

"On  motion  made  and  seconded  Resolved  that 
should  the  prevailing  disease  continue  that  the  Master 
be  empowered  to  dispense  with  the  next  Stated  Meet- 
ing which  was  agreed  to" 

November  11,  iS^5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20 
members  &  10  Visitors 

Visitors— Br.  Lindsey,  No.  67;  Br.  Stoane,  No.  59; 
Br.  W".  Smith,  Rob'.  Welford,  Cap*.  Huggins,  Jn°. 
Reynolds,  Temple  Lodge,  Albany;  Rob*.  Allen,  C. 
Collins,  Peter  A.  Brown,  Hans  Brown,  No.  19. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  Petition 
of  John  Cluley  Report,  that  they  had  attended  to  that 
duty  and  find  him  worthy  to  become  a  Member  of 
Lodge  No.  2  he  was  balloted  for  and  unanimously 
Elected. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Br  Rob*.  Allen  late  a 
member  of  this  Lodge  requesting  to  be  again  ad- 
mitted a  member 

The  Petition  of  David  Thomas  requesting  assist- 
ance was  read  and  a  Committee  of  Bro^  Crossman, 
Pullen  &  Raynor  were  Appointed  and  ten  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands  to  give  as  they  may  see  fit. 
It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  a  pair  of  Drawers 

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for  the  Preparing  room  be  provided,  which  was 
agreed  to. 

December  8,  iS(?5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  26 
members  &  4  Visitors.  Election  Bro.  Stephen  Clay- 
ton, W.  M.-Jno  0 'Brian,  S.  W.-P  Grant,  J.  W. 
J.  Carter,  Secty.  Rob'  Pullen,  Treas^  *' Resolved 
That  the  Secty  Salary  be  advanced  to  $50.  per  annum 
and  that  the  Bye  Law  now  in  force  be  rescinded; 
ordered  to  lie  on  the  Books  for  discussion  the  usual 
time ' ' 

Committee  appointed  on  the  petition  of  Br  W™. 
Smith  Report  that  they  have  made  the  necessary  en- 
quiries and  find  him  worthy  to. become  a  member  of 
Lodge  No.  2.     He  was  unanimously  elected. 

Committee  appointed  on  the  petition  of  Rob*.  Allen 
Report  that  they  have  made  the  necessary  enquiries 
and  find  him  worthy  to  become  a  member  of  Lodge 
No.  2.     He  was  unanimously  elected. 

A  Petition  was  Presented  and  read  from  Sarah 
Reiley  widow  of  John  Reiley,  late  member  of  this 
Lodge,  requesting  assistance,  which  was  referred  to  a 
Committee  of  Br^.  Burden,  Ennis  and  Pullen,  and  20 
Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  to  relieve  her  as  they 
shall  see  fit. 

Adjourned  to  the  Fourth  Monday 

December  23,  iS05.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  9 
members  Officers  Installed  W  M  appointed  Bro. 
De  Silver,  S.  D.  Wm  Maguire,  J.  D.  &  Stewards  & 
Tyler  were  continued" 

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Applications  11— Approved  8  Not  acted  on  3 
Affiliations  4  Expulsion  1  Withdrawal  2  Re  ad- 
mitted 1— 

January  13,  i5^^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19 
members  Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands  $359.19  be- 
sides the  sum  loaned  to  the  Grand  Lodge.  50  White 
&  25  Black  Balls  were  ordered  to  be  purchased  for 
use  of  the  Lodge. 

It  was  moved  and  seconded  the  Delinquent  Mem- 
bers should  be  served  with  a  Special  Notice  that  are 
in  arrears  more  than  $2. 

February  10,  i5^^.— Stated  Lodge.  ''Resolved  that 
Elijah  Batiss  be  Expelled  this  Lodge  and  never  more 
be  admitted  a  member  he  having  been  tried  at  Court 
held  in  this  City  and  convicted  of  causing  the  death 
of  his  wife" 

"Resolved  That  the  Secretarys  salary  be  continued 
as  before  at  $20.  per  annum. 

February  18,  JZSO^.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present 
8  members 

March  10,  i5C»(?.— Stated  Meeting.  "Resolved  That 
Sec  12"  in  the  Book  of  By  Laws  be  expunged  and  the 
following  be  inserted  viz  the  sum  which  may  be 
expended  on  each  Stated  Meeting  night  for  Refresh- 
ments shall  not  exceed  16  Dolls"  ordered  to  lay  over 
the  usual  time  for  discussion. 

A  Complaint  was  made  by  B^  Pullen  against  the 
Masonic  Conduct  of  B""  Hayden.     On  motion  Resolved 

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that  a  Comity  of  five  members  be  Apointed  to  Examin 
into  the  same  and  report  the  next  stated  night. 

On  Sunday,  March  16,  1806,  there  passed  to  the 
Grand  Lodge  above  Brother  Thomas  Proctor,  who  had 
been  one  of  the  most  active  and  honored  Brethren  in 
this  Jurisdiction.  For  many  years  he  was  one  of  the 
most  prominent  members  of  Lodge  No.  2,  as  appears 
from  our  minutes,  as  well  as  in  the  Military  Lodge 
attached  to  his  regiment  of  artillery  during  the  Revo- 
lutionary War,  also  of  the  Grand  Lodge  and  the 
Lodge  warranted  at  Philadelphia  in  1787  imder  the 
number  of  the  old  regimental  Lodge  No.  19. 

Colonel  Proctor  resigned  from  the  army  April  9, 
1781.  The  acceptance  of  his  resignation  was  ac- 
companied by  a  personal  letter  of  regret  from 
Washington.* 

During  the  next  twenty-five  years  of  his  life  Colonel 
Proctor  was  an  active  public  servant  as  well  as  Free- 
mason. The  closing  years  of  his  life  were  harassed 
with  financial  and  legal  troubles,  owing  to  his  stub- 
born temper. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Arch  Street,  No.  — ,  be- 
tween Fourth  and  Fifth,  and  was  buried  at  three 
o'clock  on  the  following  Tuesday  afternoon,  with 
military  and  Masonic  honors,  in  the  ground  surround- 
ing St.  Paul's  P.  E.  Church,  Third  Street  below 
Walnut. 

*  Cf .  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  Vol.  IV., 
pp.  454  et  seq. 

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March  24,  ^80^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  14 
members 

The  meeting  of  this  Lodge  being  Called  for  the 
purpose  of  taking  up  the  delinquent  members  Ac- 
counts it  was  moved  and  seconded  that  Br^  Buddy, 
Adam  Hoover,  Biglow,  Mosser,  G.  Thompson  and 
Egelston  be  struck  off  the  list  of  members  for  non- 
payment of  Dues. 

Moved  and  seconded  that  B''.  Eobinson  be  Indulged 
for  6  months  to  pay  up  his  Dues  and  B^  Pullen  to 
Call  on  him  for  his  note  for  that  time  for  the  amount 
of  his  arrearages. 

Also  that  B"".  Able  be  indulged  for  6  months;  B'■^ 
Linch  and  Cap^  Phillips  lay  over;  B""  Stones  lay  over 
to  the  next  stated  night.  B"".  Boyd  be  indulged  for 
6  months;  B^  Van  Dyke  Moore  lay  over  until  next 
stated  night;  B^  Stafford  lay  over;  B^  Pullen  be 
appointed  to  call  on  B"".  Weeks  for  the  amount  of  his 
dues.  Eeported  that  Cap*.  Tidball  is  dead.  Moved 
&  seconded  B"".  Elly's  dues  lay  over,  and  B'".  Desilver 
be  appointed  to  call  on  him  for  his  arrearages;  B'". 
O'Brien  appointed  to  call  on  B^  Phillip  Maguire  for 
Darbey  McDonah's  dues;  B^  Pullen  appointed  to  call 
on  B^  Duey  for  the  amount  of  his  dues;  B"".  W"". 
Allen  appointed  to  call  on  B'".  Stone  for  his  dues. 
B'■^  Stanley,  Weacock,  Knowles,  Grayham  and  Usher 
lay  over.  B""  Able  appointed  to  call  on  B*".  Biglow 
for  the  amount  of  his  dues;  B^  Kane  is  answerable 
for  B^  Tatem's  dues. 

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A  petition  was  presented  from  a  Widow  Hoffman 
and  read  praying  for  Relief,  it  was  moved  and  sec- 
onded that  8  dollars  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  a 
Comity  to  give  her  if  found  worthy. 

April  14,  1806. —Stated  Meeting.  Present  24  mem- 
bers. ^'A  Petition  was  presented  and  read  from 
Bro  Robinson  praying  a  loan  from  this  Lodge"  ''A 
Petition  of  the  same  nature  from  Bro  Carter  was 
also  received"  On  motion  being  made  and  seconded 
that  this  Lodge  do  agree  to  lend  out  a  loan  upon 
Interest  secured  by  Bond  &  Mortgage  on  good  free 
hold  estate"  A  Committee  was  also  appointed  to 
inquire  what  security  could  be  given,  the  Committee 
consisted  of  Bros  Rayner,  Pullen,  Burden,  0  Brien 
&  Phillips.  Amendment  to  By  Laws  (see  March 
10)  was  adopted. 

May  12,  1806.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  22  mem- 
bers      The    Committee    reported    that    the    security 

offered  by  Bro ''Was  a  lot  of  ground  with  two 

frame  Tenements  on  the  end  of  said  lot,  subject  to  a 
Ground  Rent  of  $30  per  annum— Bro  Carters  is  4r-2 
story  Brick  Houses  and  lot  of  ground  which  rent  for 
$373.32  per  annum— Report  was  laid  over  until  next 
Stated  Meeting. 

Moved  and  seconded  that  a  1000  Notices  be  pro- 
cured by  the  Secretary  for  the  use  of  this  Lodge, 
which  was  carried. 

June  9,  1806. Stated  Meeting.  Present  29  mem- 
bers    ''A  Petition  was  presented  and  received  from 

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Lodge  91  praying  of  this  Lodge  to  grant  them  our 
fourth  Monday  in  every  month  to  their  use  and  in 
lieu  therof  they  agree  to  transfer  their  3rd  Saturday 
to  the  use  of  Lodge  No  2,  it  was  debated  on  and 
agreed  to." 

A  Bill  was  presented  and  read  from  B'.  Carter  to 
the  am*,  of  12  Dollars  for  1000  printed  notices  for 
the  use  of  Lodge  No.  2.  Ordered  to  lay  over  until 
next  stated  night. 

Election,  0 'Brian,  W.  M.  Grant,  S.  W.  Thos. 
DeSilver,  J.  W.  Jasper  Carter,  Secty.  Pullen, 
Treas"".  ''Lodge  adjourned  until  the  Third  Saturday 
for  the  purpose  of  installing  their  Officers." 

June  26,  iSt*^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  7  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors.  Officers  Installed  Appointments, 
Wm.  Maquire,  S.  D.— Clewley,  J.  D.  Towell  & 
Peplow  Stewards,  Schneider  Tyler 

July  14,  i<9(?^.— Stated  Night.  Present  22  members 
''A  Letter  of  thanks  was  presented  and  read  from 
Lodge  No  91"     Balance  in  Treasury  $478.18 

''Resolved  That  a  Committee  of  Br  Pullen  Eaynor 
&  Rob*  Allen  be  appointed  to  Examine  the  Grand 
Secty  account  and  report  thereon"  A  Committee 
was  appointed  to  Bros  Rob*  Allen,  Thos  DeSilver 
Clewly  Shillingford,  and  Grant  to  inquire  what  se- 
curity could  be  given  for  a  loan  of  300  Dolls  to  be 
put  out  on  Interest  for  one  year" 

August  11,  18^^.— Stated  Night.  "It  was  moved 
and  seconded  that  all  the  papers  belonging  to  Bro 

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Robinson's  Mortgage  be  deposited  in  the  Treasurer's 
hands,  the  Committee  having  reported  that  they  had 
loaned  him  $300.  Bro  Robinson's  letter  was  read 
regretting  that  he  was  unable  to  attend  the  Lodge  to 
return  thanks  personally. 

September  8,  i(S{^<>.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16 
members  ''It  was  moved  that  the  Book  of  By  Laws 
be  read  in  open  Lodge  which  was  accordingly  done. 

The  Committy  to  whom  was  apointed  to  Releave 
B''  Graff  Report  that  they  have  Granted  him  the  sum 
placed  in  theare  hands. 

October  13,  iSO^.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  15 
members 

A  petition  was  read  from  a  B'".  Neury  praying  Re- 
leif.  A  Comity  was  apointed  of  Brothers  Grant,  De 
Silver  &  Marshall  &  $15  placed  in  theare  hand  to 
Releave  him  if  found  worthy. 

A  petition  was  read  from  B'"  Mathews  praying  Re- 
lief. A  Comity  was  appointed  of  Brothers  Pullen, 
Marshall  &  Carter,  and  Six  Dollars  placed  in  theare 
hands  to  Releave  him  if  found  worthy 

November  10,  i<SO(>.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  21 
members 

The  Commity  to  whom  was  apointed  to  Releave  B'" 
New"^  Reported  thay  found  him  worthy  and  Releaved 
him  with  fifteen  Dollars. 

A  Petition  was  presented  &  read  from  a  B"".  Mc- 
Kinny  Beging  Relief.  A  Commity  was  apointed  of 
Br"'.   Burden,   Phillips  &  Meguire,   and   Ten  Dollars 

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placed  in  theare  hands  to  Eeleave  him  if  found  worthy. 

December  8, 1806.— Stated  Night.  Present  20  mem- 
bers ''Bro  0 'Brian  petitioned  this  Lodge  to  recom- 
mend him  to  become  a  member  of  tlie  Royal  Arch 
Chapter  which  was  granted" 

B""  Carter  petitioned  this  Lodge  to  recommend  him 
to  become  a  member  of  the  R.  Arch  Chapter  which 
was  granted. 

A  Commity  was  apointed  to  Enquire  into  the  Dis- 
tresst  situation  of  the  Widdow  Graff,  and  $10  placed 
in  theare  hands  to  Releave  her  if  found  worthy. 
Commity  consisting  of  B'"  Rayner,  Phillips  &  Collings. 

Election, -O'Brien,  W.  M.-Grant,  S.  W.-DeSilver, 
J.    W.— John    Phillips,    Secty.— Pullen,    Treasurer. 

December  20,  iS^?^.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present 
6  members  Officers  Installed.  Wm.  Meguire,  S.  D. 
— Clewly,  J.  D.— Crossman  &  Shelmerdine,  Stewards 
&  Schneider,  Tyler 

Work  for  Year  iSO^.— Petitions  Received  4  Ap- 
proved 4  E  A  degree  conferred  on  4,  F  C  on  4 
M  M  on  4  admitted  1,  Withdrawn  8 

January  10, 1S^7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  26  mem- 
bers &  10  Visiting  Brethern 

Visitors:— B''^  Cook,  Salem,  Smith,  McCullough, 
No  91,  Welford,  do;  Bonneure,  No  3;  Jourdan,  No 
3 ;  Allcorn,  No  59 ;  A.  Douglass,  No  19 ;  McCurdy,  No. 
9;  Hennessy,  No.  91: 

A  petition  was  Presented  from  Catherine  Dove, 
Praying  reliefe  of  this  Lodge,  a  Committee  was  ap- 

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pointed  of  B'^^  W°.  Allen,  Burden  and  Kane,  and  ten 
Dollars  placed  in  their  hands. 

A  Petition  was  Presented  from  Ann  Clotworthy 
Praying  relief e  was  read,  and  a  Committee  of  B'■^ 
W".  Allen,  Thos.  Marshall  &  W".  Farr,  and  ten 
Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  her  purpose. 

''The  Committee  on  the  settlement  of  the  Books 
belonging  to  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  begs  leave 
to  report,  that  they  have  carefully  examined  the  same 
and  find  them  correct  and  that  there  remains  in  the 
hands  of  the  Treas"",  a  balance  of  170.50/100  Dollars 
which  with  $300  on  Loan  make  the  whole  470.50/100 
Dolls,  funds  of  the  Lodge." 

''The  G.  M.  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  with  his 
Officers  paid  a  Grand  visitation  to  this  Lodge  with  a 
committee  appointed  by  ye  Grand  Chapter  of  Brs 
John  Uhle  &  Charles  Cummins." 

"R.  W.  G.  M.  delivered  an  appropriate  discourse, 
after  which  he  proceeded  to  give  a  Lecture  on  the 
first  degree  of  Masonry" 

February  9,  iS^Z.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  15 
members  and  3  Visitors. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  Sarah 
Eiley  widow  of  John  Riley  late  member  of  this  Lodge 
requesting  relief.  A  Committee  of  B'■^  Ennis,  Powel 
and  Peplow  was  appointed,  and  twenty  Dollars  placed 
in  their  hands  for  her  Relief e. 

A  Petition  was  presented  from  Mary  Mason  re- 
guesting  reliefe  was  read,  a  Committee  was  appointed 

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of  B''\  Pullen,  Rayner  and  Phillips,  and  Twenty 
Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  to  Grant  as  they  may 
see  fit. 

B".  Graves  and  Ellis  Petitioned  the  Lodge  to 
recommend  them  to  the  Grand  Master  for  a  Dispen- 
sation to  Pass  the  Chair  which  was  agreed  to. 

B^  Cap*.  John  Phillips  Returned  the  Certificate  of 
B^  Van  Dyke  Moore  who  Dyed  in  the  East  Indies, 
which  was  ordered  to  be  Destroyed. 

Committee  to  whom  was  Refered  the  Petition  of  the 
Widow  Graff,  report  that  they  have  attended  to  that 
duty  and  relieved  her  with  twenty  Dollars. 

Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  Petition  of  the 
Widow  Dove,  Report  that  they  have  attended  to  that 
duty  and  Granted  her  ten  Dollars. 

March  9,  i56'7'.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  18  mem- 
bers and  3  Visitors      12  aprons  were  ordered. 

The  Comimittee  on  the  Petition  of  the  Widow 
Mason,  Report  that  they  had  found  her  in  distress, 
and  had  purchased  her  some  wood  and  gave  her  the 
remainder  in  money  amounting  in  the  whole  to  twenty 
Dollars. 

B''.  Pullen  Stated  the  distressed  situation  of  B^  Jn°. 
Able,  a  Member  of  this  Lodge,  whereon  a  Committee 
was  appointed  and  Twenty  Dollars  Placed  in  their 
hands  for  that  Purpose  (viz.)  B'■^  Shillingford, 
Shermerdine  and  Cluey.  On  Motion  made  and 
Seconded  it  was  Resolved  that  B'.  Abie's  Dues  be 

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Exonerated  up  to  St.  John's  Day  last,  which  was 
agreed  to. 

A  Letter  was  Presented  by  B'"  Pullen  from  the 
Junior  Grand  Warden  stating  that  the  Petitioner  was 
a  Widow  Eobinson,  who  wished  some  assisstance  from 
this  Lodge,  after  some  Discussion  it  was  thought  by 
the  Lodge  that  she  was  not  in  Such  distressed  Situa- 
tion as  to  require  any  assistance  at  Present. 

April  13,  i(S(^7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  12  mem- 
bers and  8  Visitors. 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  the  Widow  Eiley 
made  a  report  that  they  had  Relieved  her  with  ten 
Dollars,  and  had  returned  the  other  ten  which  were 
in  their  hands  to  the  Treas'". 

A  Letter  was  received  and  read  from  B^  Adam 
Duey  Requesting  Leave  to  withdraw  from  this  Lodge 
which  was  granted  to  him  on  his  paying  up  his  dues. 

^'The  Annual  Communication  from  R.  W.  G.  L.  was 
read  and  ordered  to  be  deposited  with  the  Archives 
of  this  Lodge ' ' 

May  11,  i<S(^7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  mem- 
bers &  6  Visitors.  Bill  for  1  Doz  Aprons  $8.00  was 
paid. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  Petition 
of  John  Able,  Reported  that  they  had  waited  on  B"". 
Able  and  found  him  in  Great  Distress  and  relieved 
him  with  $20  which  was  placed  in  their  hands  for  that 
Purpose. 

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May  16,  i807.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  9  mem- 
bers &  1  Visitor 

June  8,  i(S07.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  18  members 
&  12  Visitors.  "A  Resolve  was  presented  and  read 
to  rescind  the  Resolve  of  Dec  11'''  1803  and  the  old 
one  to  continue  which  was  ordered  to  lie  over  for 
discussion  the  usual  time"  Election  Peter  Grant, 
W.  M.-Thos.  Desilver,  S.  W.-Wm.  McGuire,  J.  W. 
—John  Phillips,  Secty.— Rob*  Pullen  Treas"". 

June  20,  iSOZ.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  6  mem- 
bers &  2  Visitors  Officers  Installed  W.  M.  appointed 
Bro.  Clewly,  S.  D.— Junior,  D.  was  referred  to  the 
S.  W,  Bros  Grossman  and  Shelmerdine,  Stewards  & 
Br  Schneider,  Tyler 

July  13, 18()7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  14  members 
&  6  Visitors. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  John  Lockman  pray- 
ing some  reliefe  from  this  Lodge,  which  was  refered 
to  a  Committee  of  B''^  Pullen,  O'Brien  and  Phillips 
and  that  ten  Dollars  be  placed  in  their  hands  to  re- 
lieve him  as  they  see  fit. 

It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  a  Committee  be 
appointed  to  Call  on  those  Members  who  had  with- 
drawn for  their  respective  Ballances  due  this  lodge 
when  B''^  W™.  McGuire  and  De  Silver  was  appointed 
for  that  purpose. 

Bal.  in  Treasurers  hands  $203.59|  together  with 
loan  of  $300  and  Interest  makes  $521.59^ 

August  10,  i807.— Stated  Lodge.     Present  15  mem- 

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bers  &  5  Visitors.  ''Bro  Grant  W.  M.  requested  the 
Lodge  to  grant  liim  leave  to  travel  further  which  was 
agreed  to" 

''The  Resolve  of  June  8.  Eespecting  the  Secretary's 
Salary  was  taken  up  and  acted  upon  and  was  rejected" 

A  Petition  was  presented  and  read  from  Mary 
Vanbrust,  widow  of  Isaac  Vanbrust,  a  Member  of 
Your  Society,  a  Committee  of  B'■^  Rayner,  De  Silver 
and  "W".  Allen  were  appointed,  and  ten  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands  to  relieve  her  as  they  shall  see 
proper. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  M'"^  Spina- 
cuta,  widow  of  A.  B.  Spinacuta,  formerly  a  Member 
of  your  Lodge,  a  Committee  of  B'■^  Cluley,  McGuire 
&  Schermardine,  and  that  $20  be  placed  in  their  hand 
for  her  use. 

A  Committee  was  appointed  (on  a  Statement  made 
to  the  Lodge  of  B^  John  Kane  who  was  deranged  and 
Cnfiend  in  the  Aims-House)  to  enquire  into  the 
Situation  of  his  family,  and  ten  Dollars  be  placed 
in  the  hands  of  the  said  Committee  (viz.)  B'■^  Pullen, 
De  Silver  and  Maguire. 

The  Secretary  was  requested  to  procure  1  doz 
Books  of  Constitution  for  the  use  of  the  Lodge. 

August  19,  iS6>7.— Present  3  members  &  5  Visitors. 

This  Lodge  met  by  virtue  of  a  Dispensation  from 

the  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Master  which  was  read, 

.empowering  us  to  Pass  to  the  Degree  of  the  Chair, 

B^  John  Lancaster  agreeable  to  the  Recommendation 

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of  the  Lodge.  B^  John  Lancaster  was  passed  to 
the  Degree  of  the  Chair  in  ancient  form. 

August  24,  1807,  2  p.  m.— Extra  Lodge.  Present 
9  members  &  7  Visitors 

September  14,  :Z<S07.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21 
members  &  8  Visitors. 

A  Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  the 
widow  Spinacuta,  Reported  that  they  had  relieved 
her  with  twenty  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that 
purpose. 

The  petition  of  the  widow  Novick  requesting  as- 
sistance was  read,  and  it  was  moved  and  Seconded 
that  Eight  Dollars  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Com- 
mittee  (viz.)   B'^  PuUen,  Phillips  and  Cluley. 

The  petition  of  the  widow  Marriner  requesting  as- 
sistance was  read,  on  motion  made  and  seconded  the 
same  Committee  was  appointed,  and  ten  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Rob*.  McCune,  and  a 
Committee  was  appointed  and  10  Dollars  placed  in 
their  hands  (viz.)  McGuire,  Collins  «&  De  Silver. 

Committee  Report  on  B''  Lockman  y^  they  had  give 
him  5  Doll.  &  Ret^.  5  to  the  treasurer.  Committee  on 
Mrs.  Kane  Returned  the  order  drawn  in  her  favor  not 
being  in  want  at  Present. 

October  12,  iS(?7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  13  mem- 
bers &  7  Visitors 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  Petition  of  the 
widows  Nowick  &  Mariner  Reported  that  they  had 

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waited  upon  them  and  found  them  in  Distress,  and 
relieved  them  with  the  sums  Granted  by  the  Lodge. 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  Petition  of  Eob\ 
McKane  Report  that  they  found  him  in  Distress  and 
relieved  him  with  the  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their 
Hands. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  a  B^  Jere- 
mia  Da  Silva  and  a  Committee  of  B".  Rayner, 
O'Brien  and  McGuire  was  appointed  and  ten  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose,  to  relieve  him 
as  they  shall  see  fit. 

November  9,  1807.—Btaied  Lodge.  Present  18 
members  &  5  Visitors 

B^  W™.  Arrowsmith  requested  the  Lodge  to  recom- 
mend him  to  the  Grand  Lodge  in  order  to  obtain  a 
Dispensation  to  pass  the  Chair  to  be  further  ad- 
vanced in  Masonry  which  was  agreed  to. 

No  business  of  importance  appearing  before  the 
Lodge,  a  motion  was  made  and  seconded  that  the  By 
Laws  should  be  read  for  the  information  of  the  Mem- 
bers which  was  agreed  to"  ''The  by  laws  was  then 
read" 

December  14,  i<S^7.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  18 
members  &  6  Visitors 

The  Lodge  being  Called  on  again  from  Eefresh- 
ment  to  Labour  they  proceed  to  the  Election  of  their 
oflScers  for  the  ensuing  six  Months  from  St.  John's 
Day  next.  On  Counting  the  ballots  the  following 
brethren  were  Declared  Duly  Elected  (viz.)  B'■^  Peter 

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Grant,  W.  M. ;  Tho^  De  Silver,  S.  W. ;  W".  McGuire, 
J.  W. ;  Rob'.  Pullen,  Treas. ;  John  Phillips,  Sec^ 

December  19,  i8^7.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
5  members  &  4  Visitors     Officers  Installed 

Work  for  Year  j:5(?7'.— Applications  8  Approved 
6, -Dispensation  E.  P.  &  R  2  E.  A.  3.-F.  C.  3.- 
M.  M.  2.— Admitted,  6.— Withdrawn,  2. 

January  11,  i(S(?S.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  27 
members  &  3  Visitors.  Balance  in  Treas""  hands 
$197.98  cts  &  $300  on  Mtge      Total  $497.98 

February  8,  :Z5^S.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25  mem- 
bers &  7  Visitors.  "The  Grand  Master  of  the  State 
of  Pennsylvania  with  his  Grand  Officers  paid  their 
Annual  Grand  Visitation  to  this  Lodge  with  a  Com- 
mittee of  Brothers  Cnmmins  and  Henessy  from  the 
Grand  Eoyal  Chapter.  The  Grand  Master  and  his 
Officers  having  taken  the  Chair,  he  called  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Lodge;  and  delivered  an  appropriate  dis- 
course on  their  labours,  and  a  request  to  continue. 

March  14,  iSOS.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers and  8  visitors  "Bro  O'Brien  informed  the 
Lodge  of  the  death  of  Bro  Lawrence  Maher  in  the 
West  Indies  about  two  months  since." 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  Mary  Owen 
widow  of  Geo^  Owen  (Mariner  deceased  stating  her 
distressed  situation  and  requesting  assistance;  a 
Committee  was  appointed  of  Brs.  Burden,  Pullen  and 
Rayner  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hand  for  to 
give  as  they  shall  see  fit. 

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The  Committee  appointed  on  tlie  widow  Kenny, 
Beg  leave  to  Report,  tliat  they  had  found  her  in  dis- 
tress and  had  relieved  her  with  ten  Dollars  placed  in 
their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

The  Commiteee  to  whom  was  refered  the  Petition 
of  Peter  Wiendjard  report,  that  they  found  him  in 
distress  and  relieved  him  with  the  ten  Dollars  Placed 
in  their  Hands  for  that  purpose. 

"The  Report  of  the  Grand  Secretary  to  the  R.  W. 
Gr.  M.  of  the  transactions  of  Lodge  No  2  since  the 
last  Grand  Visitation  in  January  1807  was  received 
and  read,  and  ordered  to  be  deposited  among  the 
Archives  of  this  Lodge" 

April  11,  i86'S.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21  mem- 
bers and  9  visitors 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  petition  of 
Mary  Owen  report  that  they  have  attended  to  that 
Duty  and  had  relieved  her  with  the  ten  Dollars  placed 
in  their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  the  widow  of  Jn°. 
Cope,  late  a  Member  of  this  lodge,  stating  her  dis- 
tresed  Situation  and  requesting  relief,  a  Committee 
was  appointed  of  Br.  Lancaster,  Eeisch,  and  Bring- 
liurst  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  her 
relief. 

May  9,  iS^S.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  members 
and  14  visitors 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  widow  Cope  re- 
port that  they  have  made  the  necessary  enquires  and 

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found  her  in  distress  and  relieved  her  with  the  ten 
Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

Bla^/  21,  iS(>S.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  10 
members  and  2  visitors  ''It  was  moved  and  sec- 
onded that  the  Committee  on  the  loan  of  money  to 
Bro  Robinson  be  disired  to  attend  the  sale  of  prop- 
erty on  which  the  mortgage  is  given  and  bid  for  it 
to  y®  amount  of  mortgage  and  expenses" 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Br  W".  Franklin 
praying  for  relief  when  Eight  Dollars  was  placed  in 
the  hands  of  a  Committee  of  B''.  Pullen,  McGuire  & 
De  Silver  to  relieve  him. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  a  Br.  Jos.  Chambers 
praying  reliefe  when  $5  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a 
Committee  of  McGuire,  Bringhurst  &  Towel  for  his 
reliefe. 

May  24,  i8(?8.— Extra  Lodge.  Present  5  members 
' '  The  Lodge  was  convened  by  virtue  of  a  dispensation 
from  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  to  enter  pass  and  raise  Joseph 
M  Turner" 

June  13,  iSOS.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23  mem- 
bers and  6  Visitors. 

The  Lodge  was  called  from  labour  to  refreshment 
for  a  Short  Space  of  time.  The  Lodge  was  Called 
from  Refreshment  to  labor.  This  bemg  Election 
night,  the  lodge  proceeded  to  the  election  of  their 
officers  for  the  ensuing  six  months  on  Counting  the 
Ballots   the   following  Brethren  were   duly   Elected: 

Brs.  Thos.  Rayner,  W.  M.— Wm.  Meguire,  S.  W.— 

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John  Cluley,  J.  W.  Rob*.  Pullen,  Treas.  John 
Phillips,  Sect'y. 

June  18,  iS6>8.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  9  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors.     Officers  Installed. 

''The  Secretary  having  informed  the  Lodge  that  the 
Summon 's  were  all  finished,  he  was  ordered  to  pro- 
cure 1000  copies  printed" 

Bro  Fletcher  appointed  S.  D.  Bringhurst,  J.  D. 
Bros  Reich  &  Douglass;  Stewards  &  Wm  Schneider 
Tyler 

July  11,  iS^S.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  24  mem- 
bers &  5  visitors  Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands 
$220.03  "The  Committee  to  whom  was  intrusted  the 
loan  of  $300.  beg  leave  to  report,  that  they  have  at- 
tended to  that  duty  as  they  were  requested  and  here- 
with return  the  amount  to  the  Lodge  as  per  state- 
ment annexed  by  their  Attorney 

Robert  Pullen,  Tho^  DeSilver,  Peter  Grant,  John 
Cluly  and  James  Shillingford  vs  Rudeman  Robinson 

Real  Debt  $300.- 

Int  from  August  7  1807 16.20 

Sales  .46  cts  Lev  Facias  1.20  Atty  Writ  $5. .         e>M 

$322.86 

Cash  paid  Attorney $5. 

do     Lev  Fa 1.20 

"     Sales 46 

*'     Atty  Writ 5.  11.66 

Balance $311.20 

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This  is  the  just  balance,  to  which  should  be  added 
the  amount  of  One  year's  Interest  paid  by  the  Com- 
mittee to  the  Lodge" 

''The  Committee  to  whom  were  intrusted  the  loan 
of  the  monies  was  continued  (with  the  appointment 
of  Br  Burden  in  the  place  of  Bro  DeSilver  with- 
drawn) when  a  motion  was  made  and  seconded  that 
the  monies  returned  be  loaned  to  Bro  John  Towell 
and  the  Committee  have  power  to  draw  on  the  Treas- 
urer for  $300  whenever  they  were  satisfied  with  the 
security  offered  which  was  agreed  to"  Bro  Phillips 
presented  a  Bill  for  Six  Mos  Salary  $10.—  "  ''Ad- 
journed till  Wednesday  4  o'clock  p  m" 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  petition  of 
Jo^  H.  Turner,  Report  that  they  have  made  the 
necessary  enquires  and  find  him  worthy  to  become  a 
member  of  Lodge  No  2,  he  was  ballotted  for  and 
duly  Elected  a  member  of  this  Lodge. 

Fellow  Crafts  Lodge  closed  and  the  Entered  Ap- 
prentice's opened.  The  Committee  to  whom  was  re- 
fered the  petition  of  B'".  Thomas,  Report,  that  they 
have  attended  to  that  Duty  and  had  relieved  him  with 
five  dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

July  13,  iS^(9.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  11 
members  and  2  visitors 

The  lodge  was  called  for  the  express  purpose  of 
Passing  and  raising  B".  W".  Warner,  he  being  about 
to  travel,  which  was  agreed  to. 

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August  8,  1808.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23  mem- 
bers &  5  visitors 

The  Amiual  Communication  from  the  R.  W.  Gr.  L. 
was  read. 

Together  with  the  Charge  Delivered  before  the 
different  lodges  in  this  City  by  the  Right  Worship- 
full  Grand  Master  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 

September  12,  iSOS.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21 
members  and  6  visitors 

''The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Loan, 
report,  that  they  do  not  feel  fully  satisfied  with  the 
security,  have  thought  proper  to  decline  the  loan." 

''It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  a  Committee  be 
appointed  to  meet  the  Committee  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
to  settle  the  dues  of  this  Lodge  and  that  the  said 
Committee  have  power  to  draw  on  the  Treasurer  for 
the  same  which  was  agreed  to"  "Committee  Bros 
Burden  Phillips  and  0  Brien" 

October  10, 1808.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  mem- 
bers 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Derrick  Hartman  a 
member  of  this  lodge  requesting  reliefe  was  read  and 
referred  to  a  Committee,  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in 
their  hands  to  grant  as  they  shall  see  fit.  It  was 
moved  and  seconded  that  the  Seer'',  notify  every  de- 
linquent member  to  come  forward  on  the  next  Stated 
meeting  to  settle  up  their  respective  Dues  to  this 
lodge,  which  was  agreed  to. 

A  request  was  made  by  B^  Burden  in  Behalf  of 

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^be  pcnnsi^lvanta  jfreemaeon'e  Mall 

the  widow  of  the  late  B^  Grraff  for  assistance,  whicli 
was  referred  to  a  Committee  of  B'^^  Grant  Meguire 
&  Douglas,  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  to 
grant  as  they  shall  see  fit. 

November  14,  iS^S.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  18 
members  &  9  visitors 

The  Petition  of  Derrick  Hartman  Reffered  to  a 
Committee  Report  that  they  have  attended  and 
granted  him  the  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for 
that  purpose. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  Eliz''.  Hall 
requesting  assistance  was  read  and  a  Committee  was 
appointed  of  B'".  Pullen,  Burden  &  Grant  and  ten 
Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose  to  give 
as  they  shall  see  fit. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  Petition 
of  the  widow  Graff,  Report,  that  they  have  attended 
to  that  Duty  and  beliving  her  to  be  in  distress 
granted  her  five  Dollars.  Returned  the  other  five  to 
the  Treasurer. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  M'^  MaGee  request- 
ing Assistance  which  was  refered  to  a  Committee  of 
B".  Burden  Grant  and  Towel  and  twenty  Dollars 
placed  in  ther  hands  to  Grant  as  they  Shall  see  fit. 

December  12,  iSOS.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  22 
members  &  11  visitors 

The  Lodge  was  Called  of  from  Labour  to  Refresh- 
ment for  a  short  space  of  time.  The  lodge  was 
Called  from  Refreshment  to  Labour. 

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This  being  Election  niglit  the  Lodge  Proceeded  to 
the  Election  of  their  officers  for  the  ensuing  Six 
months.  On  Counting  the  Ballotts  the  following 
Brethren  were  Declared  Duly  Elected. 

Bro.  Thos  Raynor,  W.  M.— Wm.  Meguire,  S.  W.— 
Jno.  Cluley,  J.  W.  Jn°.  Phillips,  Secty.— Jos.  Bur- 
den, Treas"".  "A  charge  was  presented  but  not  read 
against  Bro  Wm  Allen  a  Committee  was  appointed 
of  Bros.  Burden,  Phillips  Douglass  Meguire  and 
Cluley"  Lodge  adjourned  at  9  oclock  to  Saturday 
17  inst 

December  17,  iSOS.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  6 
members  Officers  Installed.  Appointments  Bro. 
Fletcher,  S.  D.-Bringhurst,  J.  D.  by  the  S.  W, 
Bros.  Eeisch  and  Douglass,  Stewards.  Wm. 
Schneider,    Tyler. 

Applications  7— Approved  8  Entered  6  Crafted 
7  Raised  6  Dispensation  to  E  P  &  R  1  With- 
drawals 4- 

January  9,  i<S{?5.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers and  6  Visitors.  Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands 
$210.38.  ''The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred 
the  charge  against  Wm  Allen  Report,  that  they  have 
attended  to  that  duty  and  are  of  opinion  that  he 
should  be  expelled  this  Lodge,  which  was  agreed  to" 

The  Entered  Apprentice  lodge  was  opened  in  due 
form  and  the  meetings  of  the  last  Stated  and  ad- 
journed nights  were  read.  A  Petition  was  received 
and  read  from  the  widow  Lowe  requesting  assistance. 

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^hc  Pennsylvania  freemason's  Hall 

A  Committee  was  appointed  of  B".  Fletcher,  O'Brien 
and  Meguire  and  Eight  Dollars  placed  placed  in  their 
Hands  for  that  purpose. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  a  Col'  Henry 
Shrupp  a  late  member  of  No.  19  Requesting  Assis- 
tance, a  Committee  was  appointed  of  Bringhust,  Sher- 
mandine  and  Fearon,  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their 
hands  to  give  as  they  shall  see  fit 

It  was  moved  and  Seconded  that  a  Committee  be 
appointed  to  enquire  what,  if  any,  amendments  or 
alterations  in  necessary  in  the  bye-laws  of  this  lodge 
(viz)  B'■^  Burden  Phillips,  Meguire,  Cluley  & 
Wallington. 

The  Sec^.  presented  his  bill  for  |  year  salary  $10 
and  2.50  for  special  notices.  Stewards  Bill  was  read 
and  ordered  to  be  paid  amounting  to  $20.40. 

February  13,  i(56»5>.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  25 
members  &  4  Visitors 

''A  Committee  was  appointed  of  Brs  Phillips, 
0  Brien,  Maguire  and  Cluley  to  enquire  into  a  charge 
of  Bro  Eeisch  against  John  G.  Bringhurst,  and  report 
thereon. ' ' 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  petition  of  the 
widow  Low.  Report,  that  they  have  attended  to  that 
duty  and  Granted  her  five  Dollars,  returned  the  other 
three  to  the  Lodge 

The  Committee  appointed  on  B^  Shrupp.  Report 
that  they  have  attended  to  that  duty  and  found  him 

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in  Great  Distress,  and  granted  him  the  ten  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

A  Motion  was  made  &  seconded  in  favor  of  the 
widow  Graff,  to  grant  her  five  Dollars  which  was 
agreed  to  the  same  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  former 
Committee. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  the  widow  of  Alex"" 
Morrison  late  a  member  of  this  Lodge  Stating  her  Dis- 
tressed Situation  and  requesting  assistance,  a  Com- 
mittee was  appointed  of  B'■^  Wallington,  South  and 
Fletcher  and  20  Dollars  placed  in  their  hand  to  grant 
as  they  shall  see  fit 

B""  Meguire  one  of  the  Committee  appointed  on 
M^^  Gifford  Eeported  verbally  that  they  had  Granted 
her  five  Dollars  and  that  he  has  now  returned  the 
other  five  to  the  Lodge. 

"The  Grand  Officers  of  the  State  of  Penn^  was 
announced  as  being  in  waiting  by  the  Grand 
Pursuivant,  to  pay  their  annual  visitation  to  this 
Lodge,  and  were  received  with  the  usual  ceremonies. 
The  R.  W.  G.  M.  having  taken  his  seat  in  the  chair, 
and  the  other  officers  their  respective  seats,  the 
Grand  Sect'y  made  the  following  report:  that  he  has 
attended  to  that  duty  and  fined  that  the  Members  pres- 
ent at  the  Stated  Meetings,  have  been  from  18  to  24 
and  also  a  number  of  visitors:  that  it  does  not 
appear  by  the  minutes  that  all  brethem,  not  P.  M. 
had  withdrawn  previous  to  the  Installation  of  the 
W.  M.  in  June  and  December:  that  the  minutes  of 

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Hbc  Pennsylvania  jfrecmason'e  Hall 

the  12'''  of  December  says  that,  a  charge  was  pre- 
sented, but  not  read,  against  Bro  Wm  Allen,  and  a 
Committee  was  appointed.  On  the  9""  January  said 
Committee,  Reported  that  they  had  attended  to  that 
duty  and  were  of  opinion  that  he  should  be  expelled 
the  Lodge  which  was  agreed  to ;  from  the  said  minutes 
it  does  not  appear  what  the  charge  was,  what  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Committee  were,  nor  that  he  had  a 
regular  hearing.  That  so  far  as  can  be  judged  from 
the  minutes  it  appears  that  all  the  labours  of  the  said 
Lodge  No  2  except  as  above  stated,  have  been  con- 
ducted with  regularity  and  perfectly  consistent  with 
the  Ancient  Landmarks,  All  which  is  respectfully 
submitted.  Geo.  A.  Baker,  Gr'd  Secty.  The  E.  W. 
G.  M.  made  a  few  remarks  on  the  above  report  and 
hoped  those  small  errors  would  be  attended  to.  After 
which  he  delivered  an  appropriate  discourse  on 
Masonry  and  for  the  conduct  of  the  Brethern  in  Gen- 
eral, to  which  the  W.  M.  in  behalf  of  the  Lodge  re- 
turned him  his  sincere  thanks  for  his  well  timed  advice 
and  for  the  charge  which  he  had  delivered. 

March  13,  iS^P.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  11  mem- 
bers and  1  visitor— The  Committee  to  whom  was 
referred  the  complaint  of  Bro  Eeisch  against  Bro 
Bringhurst,  Report  that  they  have  attended  to  that 
duty  and  having  heard  both  parties  are  of  opinion 
after  mature  deliberation  that  Bro  Reisch  having 
taken  the  law  into  his   own  hands   previous   to  his 

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submitting  it  to  this  Lodge,  that  we  have  no  further 
control  over  it,  which  report  was  approved  of. ' ' 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Sarah  Cox  widow  of 
Cap^  John  Cox  Deceased  requesting  relief  was  read 
and  refered  to  a  Committee  of  B'■^  Burden,  Meguire 
and  Phillips  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands 
to  Grant  as  they  shall  see  fit. 

April  10,  :Z86'i>,— Stated  Lodge.  Present  19  mem- 
bers and  2  Visitors. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  G.  A.  Baker  Jun'" 
requesting  to  be  Initiated  in  the  mysteries  of  free 
Masonry.  A  Committee  was  appointed  of  B'"\  Bur- 
den, Meguire  &  Cluley  to  Investigate  his  character 
and  report  thereon  the  next  stated  night. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  relief  M'■^  Gifford  Ke- 
port  that  they  had  Granted  her  five  Dollars  and  re- 
turned the  Lodge  five,  the  same  as  verbally  reported 
Feb.  9'\ 

The  W.  Master  informed  the  Lodge  that  the  Com- 
mittee appointed  Feb.  13^^  1809  on  the  Petition  of  the 
widow  Morrison,  Eeport,  that  B''^  Wallington  and 
South  produced  him  a  receipt  from  Mrs.  Morrison  for 
the  twenty  Dollars,  which  they  had  Paid  her  having 
found  her  worthy. 

The  Committee  on  the  widow  Cox,  Eeport  having 
found  her  worthy. 

May  8,  iS^P.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16  mem- 
bers &  7  Visitors 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Petition 

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^be  Pennsylvania  ^freemason's  Mall 

of  Geo.  A.  Baker  Jun"".  Eeport  favorably,  he  was 
ballotted  and  unanimously  approved  of.  He  being 
in  waiting  was  brought  forward  and  Initiated  into  the 
first  degre  of  Masonry  in  Ancient  foi-m.  Returned 
and  gave  thanks  and  received  the  usual  Instructions. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  Obadia  New- 
comb  a  Master  Mason  Stating  his  distressed  Situa- 
tion, he  being  by  trade  a  Carpenter  fell  from  a  build- 
ing at  which  he  was  at  work  in  March  Last,  and  not 
being  able  to  walk  since.  A  Committee  was  ap- 
pointed of  Brs.  Maguire,  Fletcher  and  Douglas  and 
15  Dollars  placed  in  their  Hands  to  relieve  as  they 
shall  see  fit. 

"A  Bill  was  received  from  the  Gr'd  Secty,  con- 
taining the  amount  of  the  G.  L.  dues  from  Dec  27*'' 

1807  to  Dec"-  27'*^  1808  amounting  to  $59.80 

Rent  of  the  Room,  fire  wood  &  furniture  40. 


$98.80 


June  12,  iSOP.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17  mem- 
bers Election,  Wm  Maguire,  W.  M.— Jno.  Cluley, 
S.  W.— Fletcher  J.  W.  Jno.  Phillips,  Sect'y.  &  Jos. 
Burden  Treas^  adjourned  to  the  3rd  Saturday. 

The  Lodge  was  called  off  from  labor  to  refreshment 
for  the  space  of  ten  minutes.  The  Lodge  was  again 
Called  on  from  Rrefreshment  to  Labour,  this  being 
Election  night,  the  Lodge  Preceeded  to  the  Election 
of  officers  for  the  ensuing  six  months,  on   Counting 

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the  ballots  the  following  brethren  were  Declared  to 
be  duly  Elected. 

June  17,  JS^P.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  9  mem- 
bers &  1  Visitor,  Officers  Installed  Bro  Douglass 
appointed  S.  D.— Fearon  J.  D.— Eeisch  &  Carr, 
Stewards  and  Wm.  Schneider,  Tyler. 

''A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  J.  D. 
Hauteval,  praying  relief  leave  was  granted  to  with- 
draw his  petition  as  he  was  found  to  be  an  Imposter 
or  worse,  and  that  the  same  be  communicated  to  the 
Grrand  Lodge— agreed  to. 

July  10,  iSOP.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  15  mem- 
bers &  4  Visitors.  Balance  in  Treasurers  hands 
$31.55.  ''A  Letter  was  received  and  read  from  the 
New  Hall  Committee  accompanied  with  a  resolution 
of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  is  in  the  words  following 
(viz)  Resolved  that  the  New  Hall  Committee  be  in- 
structe'd  to  call  on  the  different  Lodges  and  request 
to  collect  from  their  different  Members  the  amount 
of  their  subscription.  Whereon  Brs.  Burden  and 
Phillips  were  appointed  to  collect  the  same." 

B"".  Baker  being  in  waiting  was  brought  forward 
and  raised  to  the  Sublime  Degree  of  a  M.  M.  Re- 
turned and  gave  thanks  and  received  a  lecture  on 
that  Degree. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  revisal  of 
the  Bye  laws  Stated  that  they  were  ready  to  report. 
Ordered  to  lie  over 

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A  petition  was  Presented  and  read  from  Martha 
Ellis  widow  of  Cap'  Ellis  late  a  member  of  this  lodge, 
a  Committee  was  appointed  of  B''^  Burden,  Douglas 
and  Cluley  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for 
that  purpose. 

August  14,  1809. —Stated  Lodge.  Present  10  mem- 
bers &  3  visitors 

B^  Phillips  Presented  a  Bill  for  one  Dozen  Books 
of  Constitution  and  Six  Months  salary  which  was 
ordered  to  be  paid  $18. 

September  11,  icSCiP.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  16 
members  &  8  visitors 

We  the  Committee  appointed  by  lodge  No  2  to 
Enquire  into  the  Situation  of  M'"^  Ellis  report  that 
we  granted  her  the  sum  of  Eight  Dollars  and  returned 
to  the  Lodge  $2. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  B'^  Tho^ 
Vassault  formerly  a  Member  of  this  Lodge  Stating 
his  Distressed  Situation  and  requesting  their  assist- 
ance, a  Committee  were  appointed  of  B'■^  Burden, 
Douglass  and  Meguire  and  $20  placed  in  their  hands 
to  relive  as  they  shall  see  fit 

A  Petition  was  presented  and  read  from  Hannah 
Cope  widow  of  John  Cope  late  a  Member  of  this 
lodge  stating  her  Distressed  Situation,  a  Committee 
was  appointed  of  B'"^  Reisch,  Baker  and  Winmer  and 
ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that  purpose. 

A  Petition  was  read  from  Tho\  McReynolds  Stating 

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Ms  Distressed  Situation  when  a  Committee  of  B". 
Pullen,  Eardly  &  Fletcher  were  appointed  to  enquire 
into  his  Situation  and  report  the  next  Stated  night. 

Adjourned  to  16  inst 

September  16,  iSOP.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
14  members. 

The  Lodge  Proceeded  on  the  Business  of  the 
Delinquent  Members  B"^.  M.  Brown,  E.  W.  Brown 
and  Bringhurst  were  ordered  to  lay  over 

On  motion  made  and  seconded  it  was  resolved  that 
B''^  John  Warr  and  Henry  Wister  be  struck  of  the 
List  of  Members  agreable  to  the  bye  Laws;  and  the 
Sec''^.  to  give  them  notice  thereof 

B'■^  Winter  and  Leese  requested  Leave  to  withdraw 
from  this  Lodge  on  the  Payment  up  of  their  Lodge 
Dues,  which  was  agreed  to. 

October  9,  i(S(?P,— Stated  Night.  Present  12  mem- 
bers &  8  visitors 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  John  Willbank, 
Report,  that  were  not  thoroughly  satisfied  and  re- 
quested to  be  Continued  and  two  more  were  added 
to  the  Committee  (viz)  B""  Burden  &  Douglass. 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  B^  Tho^  Vassault, 
Eeport,  that  they  had  attended  to  that  Duty  and  had 
Loaned  him  twenty  Dollars 

The  Committee  appointed  to  Enquire  into  the  Situa- 
tion of  B'".  Reynolds  Report  that  we  have  attended 
to  that  duty  and  think  him  an  object  of  Charity,  and 

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recommend  to  the  Lodge  to  Grant  him  some  Eeliefe. 
On  motion  it  was  agreed  that  five  Dollars  be  placed  in 
the  hands  of  the  same  Committee  for  his  use. 

''It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  a  Committee  be 
appointed  to  inquire  and  report  what  regulations 
would  be  necessary  for  the  distribution  of  Charity  to 
those  who  do  not  belong  to  any  of  our  regular  Lodges, 
whereon  the  following  were  appointed  for  that  pur- 
pose (viz)  Bro  G-  A  Baker  Sr.,  Phillips,  Cluley, 
OBrien  &  Fletcher 

November  13,  1809.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  17 
members  &  5  visitors 

"50  copies  of  an  address  delivered  before  the  dif- 
ferent Lodges  in  this  City  by  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  at 
his  annual  visitation  was  received  from  the  Grd  Secty 
for  the  use  of  the  members  of  this  Lodge" 

November  18,  iSO^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
11  members  &  6  visitors 

Entered  Apprentice  Lodge  Closed  and  a  fellow 
Craft  opened  when  B"".  Irwin  and  Burroughes  were 
severally  Examined  in  open  Lodge  and  found  worthy 
to  be  raised. 

December  11,  iSOP.— Stated  Night.  Present  20 
members  &  5  visitors 

The  Lodge  Called  from  Refreshment  to  labour  and 
Proceeded  to  the  Election  of  their  officers  for  the 
Ensuing  six  months  on  counting  of  the  Ballots  the 
following  Brethi'en  were  Declared  to  be  duly  Elected. 

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Jno.  Cluley,  W.  M.— Jno.  Douglas,  S.  W.— Norris. 
Stanley,^  J.  W.— Jos.  Burden,  Treas.— Jno.  Phillips, 
Sect'y-     Adjourned  to  16^^  inst. 

December  16,  iSt'^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
13  members  &  2  Visitors  Installation  of  Officers. 
Appointments,  Brs.  Fearon,  S.  D.— Shelmerdine  & 
Carr  Stewards  Schneider,  Tyler.  S.  W.  appointed 
Bro.  Burroughes,  J.  D. 

^  Norris  Stanley  was  born  November  10,  1765.  In  early  life  he 
followed  the  sea  and  was  Captain  of  clipper  ships  trading  prin- 
cipally to  Liverpool  with  occasional  trips  to  the  West  Indies.  He 
subsequently  owned  vessels  himself  and  became  a  well-known  mer- 
chant of  Philadelphia  and  an  associate  of  Stephen  Girard,  William 
Cummings,  Commodore  Bainbridge,  Israel  Israel,  Mayor  Wharton, 
Commodore  Thomas  Barry,  Captain  Thomas  Hayes  of  John  Moss's 
ship  "  Tontine,"  Captain  Patrick  Hayes  and  many  other  well-known 
Philadelphians.  He  took  a  great  interest  in  Masonry  and  Lodge 
No.  2,  but  did  not  care  to  become  Master  although  he  was  Jimior 
Warden,  December  11,  1809,  and  Senior  Master  of  Ceremonies, 
December  18,  1816.  He  had  many  strong  positive  qualities  and 
interesting  stories  are  related  of  him.  He  was  wealthy  for  his  times 
and  generous  to  the  poor  and  distressed,  especially  Masons.  For 
over  twenty  years  it  was  his  custom  to  ascertain  from  the  Com- 
mittee on  Charity  who  were  in  need  and  what  the  Lodge  had  given. 
He  would  then  himself  call  on  the  beneficiarj'^  and  give  a  like  amount, 
saying :  "  You  must  not  mention  this.  If  you  do  I  will  never  give 
you  a  d —  cent  again."  He  told  Wm.  Cummings,  Master  of  Lodge 
No.  2,  in  1837,  1838  and  1839:  "  BiUy,  I  am  getting  old,  and  as 
Master  if  you  know  of  members  of  No.  2  and  their  families  in  want 
come  to  me  and  I  will  contribute,  but  I  don't  want  you  to  tell"; 
which  promise  he  kept  literally.  He  died  in  his  eighty-sixth  year 
at  his  residence.  No.  9  Pine  Street  above  Front  Street,  in  1851,  and 
was  buried  in  his  vault  in  St.  Paul's  P.  E.  Church  yard.  He 
had  been  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Vestry  for  many  years.  By  his 
will  registered  in  Will  Book  27,  p.  1,  at  Philadelphia,  he  appointed 
his  friends,  William  Cummings  and  Horace  Binney,  Jr.,  executors. 
He  remembered  in  a  substantial  way  many  charities. 

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^be  lPenn0)?lvanta  jfrcemason's  Mall 

Applications  9— Approved  8  EAT  F  C  6 
Eaised  5  Withdrawn  6  Expelled  1— Admitted  1 
Passed  to  the  Chair  1 

January  8,  iSit?.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  mem- 
bers &  7  visitors  Balance  in  the  hands  of  Treasurer 
$104.34 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Petition 
of  M".  Brown,  Eeport  that  they  have  attended  to 
that  Duty  and  are  of  opinion  that  she  stands  in  need 
of  assistance,  on  motion  made  and  seconded  and 
agreed  that  Eight  Dollars  be  placed  in  y®  hands  of 
B'■^  Douglass,  Meguire  &  Stanley  for  her  use. 

A  Petition  was  Presented  and  read  from  Cap*  John 
Christie  requesting  reliefe  it  was  moved  and  seconded 
that  ten  Dollars  be  placed  in  the  Hand  of  a  Committee 
of  B''^  Meguire,  Stanley  &  O'Brien  for  that  purpose. 

A  Petition  was  presented  from  Sarah  Cox  praying 
Reliefe,  it  was  moved  and  seconded  that  five  Dollars 
be  placed  in  the  hands  of  B"'.  Burden,  Phillips  and 
Meguire  for  her  use. 

B''^  Cluley,  W.  M.  and  Burroughes  requested  the 
Lodge  to  Grant  them  Leave  to  be  Passed  the  Chair 
and  be  further  advanced,  which  was  agreed  to. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  M'■^  Mor- 
rison widow  of  Alex^  Morrison  formerly  a  member 
of  this  Lodge  stating  her  Distressed  Situation  on 
motion  made  and  seconded  that  10  Dollars  be  placed 
in  the  Hands  of  B'■^  Meguire,  Douglass  &  Stanley  for 
her  Relief  which  was  agreed  to. 

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A  Petition  was  presented  from  Ann  Bums,  widow 
of  Jn°  Bums  late  member  of  Lodge  No  9  stating  her 
Distressed  Situation  and  requesting  relief,  a  Com- 
mittee was  appointed  of  B'".  Baker  Jun".  Irving  & 
Carr  to  Enquire  into  her  Situation  and  report  thereon. 

January  11,  jZSit*.— Special  Lodge.  2pm  Present 
12  members      Bros.  Hamilton  and  Wiltbank  Raised 

January  17,  iSiO.— Special  Lodge.  4|  p  m  Pres- 
ent 6  members 

A  Master  Masons  Lodge  was  opened  this  Lodge 
being  called  for  the  purpose  of  Passing  to  the  Chair 
B^  W".  Hamilton  by  virtue  of  a  Dispensation  from 
the  E.  W.  G.  Master  for  that  purpose  which  was 
agreed.  There  being  none  but  past  Masters  Present 
B^  W".  Hamilton  was  past  to  the  Degree  of  the  Chair 
and  saluted  as  such  in  ancient  form.  Lodge  closed 
at  six  o'clock. 

January  20,  iSi(?.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  13 
members  &  9  visitors 

The  Committee  appointed  on  M''^  Burn's  Situation, 
Report,  that  they  had  performed  that  Duty  and  found 
her  in  a  Distressed  Situation  and  worthy  of  being 
Relieved,  on  motion  made  seconded  &  agreed  to  a 
Committee  were  appointed  of  B'■^  Baker  Jun^,  Irvin 
and  E.  W.  Carr  and  five  Dollars  placed  in  their  Hands 
for  her  use. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  a  B^  W".  Topham 
requesting  reliefe  was  read,  on  motion  made  seconded 

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and  agreed  to  a  Committee  was  appointed  of  B". 
Wilbank,  Carr  and  Hamilton  and  five  Dollars  placed 
in  their  Hands  for  that  Purpose  if  found  worthy. 

B^  Douglass  requested  leave  of  the  Lodge  to  recom- 
mend him  to  the  Grand  Lodge  for  a  Dispensation  to 
Pass  the  Chair  in  order  to  be  further  advanced  in 
Masonry  which  was  Granted  him 

February  12,  :Z5iO.— Stated  Lodge.  22  members 
present  &  3  visitors 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  B^  Topham  M". 
Morrison  and  M'■^  Byrne  reported  that  they  had  re- 
lieved them  with  the  sums  granted  by  the  Lodge. 

The  Committee  on  the  Petitions  of  M'"^  Brown  & 
B"".  Christie  report  that  they  had  Granted  Part  of  what 
was  Granted  by  the  Lodge  and  returned  five  Dollars 
to  the  Lodge. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Mary  Mason  widow 
of  Francis  Mason  late  a  Member  of  this  Lodge  was 
read  a  Committee  was  appointed  of  B'"^  Maguire, 
Burden  and  Stanley  and  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their 
hands  for  that  purpose. 

February  14,  iSi^.— Special  Lodge.  Present  13 
members  &  1  visitor. 

A  Dispensation  was  received  from  the  Right  Wor- 
shipful Grand  Master  authorizing  this  Lodge  to  Enter, 
Pass  and  Raise  Basil  Perateau,  Mariner,  to  the  Sub- 
lime Degree  of  a  Master  Mason,  he  being  in  waiting 
was  Introduced  and  initiated  to  the  first  degree  of 
Masonry  in  Ancient  form. 

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February  20,  iSi^.— Extra  Meeting.  Present  7 
members.  Bros.  Eeisch  &  Douglass,  Passed  to  the 
Chair 

They  were  both  saluted  with  the  accustomed  Honors. 

March  12,  iSi^.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  21  mem- 
bers &  11  visitors. 

The  Committee  appointed  on  the  Petition  of  the 
widow  Graff.  Eeport,  that  they  have  attended  to 
that  Duty  and  Granted  her  ten  Dolls. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  Grant  reliefe  to  the 
widow  Mason,  Report  that  they  Granted  her  ten 
Dollars  which  was  placed  in  their  hands  for  that 
purpose 

The  Committee  appointed  on  M'"".  Gallaher,  Report, 
that  they  have  attended  to  that  Duty  and  Granted  her 
five  Dollars. 

A  Petition  was  Presented  from  Brother  Adam 
Dickey  (Mariner)  of  Richmond  in  Virginia  stating 
his  Distressed  Situation  &  requesting  some  reliefe. 
It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  ten  Dollars  be  placed 
in  the  hands  of  a  Committee  to  Inquire  into  his  Situ- 
ation &  Grant  him  as  they  shall  see  fit.  a  Committee 
of  B'■^  Able,  Bringhurst  &  Irving. 

A  Petition  was  received  and  read  from  Bridget 
Corry  requesting  reliefe,  a  Committee  were  appointed 
of  B".  Shelmardine  Carr  and  G.  A.  Baker  Jun"".  and 
five  Dollars  placed  in  their  Hands  for  that  purpose, 
also  one  from  Elizabeth  Walker  requesting  assistance 

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was  received  and  read,  on  motion  made  and  seconded 
that  five  Dollars  be  Granted  her. 

''The  accounts  of  the  Grand  Lodge  against  this 
Lodge  were  received  and  read  from  the  R.  W.  G. 
Sect'y  and  are  in  the  following  terms 

Lodge  No  2  Ancient  York  Masons 

To  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  Dr 

1809  Dec''  27,  One  years  Grand  Lodge  Dues  to 

this  day  59.96 

One  years  Room  Bent  and  fire  wood  &c  40. 

$99^96 

which  was  ordered  to  be  paid 

March  21,  iSi^.— Special  Meeting.  Present  13 
members  Dis  to  E.  P.  R  Cha^  J  Brook 

April  9,  i(S:Z<9.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  23  members 
&  5  visitors,  also  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  Br.  Milnor,  R.  W. 
P.  G.  M  Br.  J.  B.  Smith  &  R.  W.  G.  Treas,  Br.  Brad- 
ford. 

''The  R.  W.  G.  M.  was  pleased  to  take  the  Chair, 
when  the  Initiated  returned  and  gave  thanks  and  re- 
ceived the  usual  instruction  and  charge  from  the 
R.  W.  G.  M" 

Following  Resolution  for  the  Information  of  this 
Lodge  was  received  and  read  from  the  R.  W.  Grand 
Secretary,  adopted  in  Grand  Lodge  April  2^.  1810 :  and 

An  address  of  James  Milnor,  Esquire,  R.  W.  G.  M. 
and  delivered  by  him  in  Grand  Lodge  on  St.  John's 

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IN  GRAND  LODGE  OF  PENNSYLVANIA, 

Adjourned  Grand  Qiiarterly  Conjmunication, 
Philaddfxhia^  Monday^  2d  J/irii,  ji.  D.  1810. 

"  THE  Committee  appointed  on  the  5th  ultimo,  on  the  subject  of 
«  illci^al  Masonic  Meetings,  made  Report,  and  offered  two  Resolu- 
"  tions,  which  were  amended  and  adopted,  as  follows,  to  wit : 

"The  Committee  appointed  on  the  5th  ultimo,  agreeably  to  a  Resolution 
'•  of"  the  Grand  Lodge,  relative  to  illegal  Masonic  Meetings — 
"beg  xeavb  to  uepokt.... 

"  THAT  they  have  enquired  into  the  premises  and  find, 
"  that  a  person  of  the  name  of  Henry  Snyder  has,  for  a  considerable 
"  time  past,  been  in  the  practice  of  holding  Masonic  Meetings  at  the 
"  Black  Horse  Tavern,  near  the  first  turnpike  gate  on  the  Frankford 

"  road,  on  Sunday  afternoons,  and  at  the  tavern  of  a  certain 

"  Doyle,  in  High  near  Water  street,  on  Thursday  evenings;  at  which 
"  places  a  number  of  Free  Masons  have  attended,  and  at  which  meet- 
"  ings  the  said  Snyder  is  in  the  habit  of  acting  as  W.  Master,  and 
"  that  Lodges  have  been  opened  and  Lectures  on  the  Masonic  De- 
"  grees  given  by  him. ...That  after  such  Lectures  have  been  given, 
"  they  proceeded  to  collect  dues  to  defray  the  expence&  for  Liquor, 
"  and  to  compensate  said  Snyder  for  his  services. 

«  Your  Committee  would  further  Report,  that  they  have  received 
"  information  of  similar  Masonic  Meetings  being  held  by  other  per- 
"  sons  in  differeni  parts  of  the  City,  and  your  Committee  conceiving 
"  that  such  illegal  and  unauthorized  meetings,  if  permitted,  will  have 
"  a  tendency  to  injure  young  Masons,  and  be  detrimental  to  the 
"  craft :  and  it  being  a  gross  deviation  from  ancient  land  marks,  to 
"  prevent  which,  they  beg  leave  to  offer  the  fallowing  Resolutions  : 

«  Resolved^  That  the  Grand  Secretary  be  requested  to  inform 
"  brother  Snvder,«that  all  such  meetings  are  illegal,  and  should  he  or 
"  any  other  brother  persist  in  such  conduct  in  future,  he  and  they 
"  will  be  dealt  with  by  the  Grand  Lodge  agi-eeably  to  the  ancient 
"  customs  and  usages  of  Masonry. 

"  Resolved,  That  it  be  recommended  to  the  master  of  each  Lodge 
"  to  warn  his  brethren  from  attending  such  meetings  under  the 
«  penalty  of  being  expelled." 

Extract  from  the  Minutes. 

GEORGE  A.  BAKER, 

Grand  Secretarij'^ 
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Day  24^'^  of  June  5809  and  a  Circular  address  by  him 
to  the  Different  Lodges  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia 
at  the  Grand  Visitation  in  the  months  of  FeV., 
March  &  April  A.  L.  5809. 

April  22,  i(S:Z^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  17 
members  &  4  visitors 

B""  Reisch  presented  a  petition  to  the  Lodge,  stating 
that  he  had  been  aggrieved  in  Consequence  of  Certain 
reports  being  spread  by  a  Member  of  this  Lodge 
prejudicial  to  his  Character,  and  praying  that  the 
Lodge  would  appoint  a  Committee  to  enquire  into 
the  subject,  the  Petition  being  Drawn  informal  on 
Motion  leave  was  Granted  him  to  withdraw  it. 

On  Wednesday,  May  30,  the  venerable  patriarch  in 
Freemasonry,  R.  W.  Past  Grand  Master  William  Ball, 
departed  this  life  and  entered  the  Grand  Celestial 
Lodge  above. 

His  Masonic  career  extended  over  sixty  years  of 
his  eventful  life.  Originally  made  a  Mason  in  Lodge 
No.  2  of  the  Moderns  in  1750,  he  affiliated  with  Lodge 
No.  2  Ancients  ten  years  later  and  became  the  first 
Grand  Master  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  a  position  which 
he  filled  with  honor  to  himself  and  the  craft  for 
twenty  years.  At  the  request  of  the  family,  his 
remains  were  interred  on  the  following  day,  at  ten 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  in  the  burial  ground  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  then  in  Fromberger's  Court 
(La  Grange  place)  west  of  Second  Street  below  Arch 

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streets.      He  was  buried  in  "Masonic  form  by  the 
Grand  Lodge"  and  the  subordinate  Lodges. 

The  order  of  said  procession  was  as  follows:  The 
Fraternity  assembled  at  the  Filbert  Street  Hall  at 
eight  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  Thursday,  May  31, 
and  proceeded  from  thence,  by  Lodges  according  to 
juniority,  in  procession  to  the  house  of  the  deceased 
on  Market  Street  (No.  41),  north  side  between  Front 
and  Second  Streets,  and  from  thence  preceding  the 
corpse,  to  the  graveyard  in  the  following  order,  viz : 

Lodge  N°.  115. 

Master  of  Ceremonies  with  drawn  Sword. 

Enter 'd  Apprentices  2  and  2, 

Fellow  Crafts  2  and  2. 

Master  Masons  2  and  2. 

Deacons  with  their  Wands. 

Secretary  with  his  Scroll,  and  Treasurer, 

Wardens  of  the  Lodge. 

Past  Masters  2  and  2. 

Master  of  the  Lodge. 
Lodges  No.  114,  91,  73,  72,  71,  67,  59,  52,  51,  19,  9,  3,  2  in 
the  same  Order. 

Band  of  Music. 
The   Grand   Lodge   then   followed  in   the   following   Order, 
to  wit: 

Grand  Tyler  with  drawn  Sword. 

Twelve  Past  Masters  2  and  2  bearing  White  Wands. 

Grand  Sword  Bearer  with  drawn  Sword. 

Past  Grand  Officers. 

Grand  Secretary  with  his  Scroll,  and  Grand  Treasurer. 

Grand  Wardens  bearing  their  Columns. 

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Three  Lights,  extinguished,  borne  by  3  Past  Mastei^. 

Holy  Bible,  Square  and  Compass,  borne  by  a  Past  Master 
and  supported  by  2  Past  Masters. 

Grand  Chaplain. 

Grand  Master  and  Deputy  Grand  Master. 

Grand  Pursuivant  with  drawn  Sword. 

Four  Grand  Deacons  bearing  their  Wands  2  and  2. 

Two  Grand  Marshals,  with  their  Wands,  on  the  Flanks  of 
the  Procession. 

The  Front  of  the  Procession  having  arrived  in  the  above 
Order  at  the  place  of  Interment,  the  Brethren  halted,  faced 
inwards  and  opened  their  Ranks,  the  Grand  Lodge,  preceded 
by  the  Corpse  and  IMourners,  moved  forward  through  the 
Ranks,  the  Brethren  closed  from  the  Rear,  followed  the  Grand 
Lodge  and  formed  a  Circle  round  the  Grave.  A  short 
Address  was  then  delivered  by  the  Reverend  Docf-  Staughton, 
and  a  prayer  offered  up  by  the  Rev*^-  Doef-  Rogers,  after 
which  the  proper  Masonic  Funeral  Service,  &c.,  was  performed 
by  the  Grand  Master  and  Grand  Chaplain  and  the  Masonic 
Honours,  &c.,  given  by  the  Brethren. 

The  funeral  being  over,  the  Procession  returned  in  Invei*se 
Order,  according  to  Seniority,  to  the  Hall,  the  Grand  Lodge 
moving  in  Front. 

May  14,  iSiO.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  20  mem- 
bers &  17  visitors. 

A  Complaint  was  Presented  by  B^  Henry  Eeiseli 
against  John  G.  Bringhnrst  for  traducing  his  Char- 
acter In  which  he  states  his  wish  that  a  Committee 
might  be  appointed  to  Investigate  the  matter  and  to 
report  thereon.  On  Motion  made  and  seconded  a 
Committee  was  appointed  of  five  Members  (viz)  B'"^ 

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Stanley,  Burden,  Meguire,  O'Brien  and  Douglass  for 
that  purpose. 

May  19,  i(S:?(?.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  16 
members  and  6  visitors 

B'■^  Barnes,  Warner,  &  Euff  were  severally  Ex- 
amined and  found  worthy  to  be  raised  to  the  Sublime 
degree  of  M.  Mason 

May  21,  i Si (?.— Adjourned  Lodge.  4  p.  m.  Pres- 
ent 11  members  &  3  visitors 

B'■^  Warner,  Barnes,  Shaw  and  Heister  were 
severally  Introduced  and  raised  to  the  Degrees  of 
Master  Masons,  they  returned  and  gave  thanks  and 
received  the  usual  Instruction. 

June  11,  i8i0.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  12  mem- 
bers &  9  visitors.  Election,  Jno.  Douglass,  W.  M,— 
Joshua  Fletcher,  S.  W.— Nerm.  Burroughes,  J.  W.— 
G.  A.  Baker  Jr.  Sect'y— Wm.  Meguire,  Treas.  "It 
was  moved,  seconded  and  approved;  that  a  Master 
of  Ceremonies  Jewel  be  provided  for  the  use  of  this 
Lodge ' ' 

B'".  Jo^  Douglass  was  examined  in  open  lodge  and 
found  worthy  to  be  Passed.  Entered  Apprentice 
Lodge  closed  and  the  Fellow  Crafts  was  opened  B^ 
Kelly  was  examined  in  open  lodge  and  found  worthy 
to  be  raised. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  refered  the  Petition  of 
B""  Reisch  against  B^  Bringhurst  Report,  that,  they 
have  attended  to  that  Duty,  and  are  of  opinion  that 

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the  Charges  against  B""  Reisch  in  his  attempting  to 
seduce  the  wife  of  B"".  Bringhurst  are  without  founda- 
tion in  Justice,  which  report  was  received. 

June  16,  iSjfO.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  19 
members,      Officers  Installed 

On  motion  made  &  seconded,  Resolved,  that  B''  Jn". 
G.  Bringhurst  be  notified  to  appear  at  the  next  stated 
meeting  of  this  Lodge  and  show  cause  if  any  he 
has  why  he  should  not  be  expelled  in  Consequence  of 
the  Report  made  by  the  Committee  on  the  Petition 
of  B"-.  Reisch. 

July  2,  iSiO.— Special  Meeting.  Present  14  mem- 
bers &  6  visitors  Dispensation  to  E.  P.  &  R.  Jos. 
Stevens 

''The  Fee  for  Initiation  was  raised  to  $30  in  conse- 
quence of  a  Tax  of  $5.  levied  by  the  Grand  Lodge  for 
each  Initiation 

July  9,  iSiO.— Stated  Night.  Present  22  members 
&  25  visitors.  W.  M.  announced  the  following  ap- 
pointments, B.  Tho^  Irwin,  S.  D.— Wm  Hamilton, 
J.  D.  Br.  Edward  W.  Carr,  M  of  C,-"John  Wood- 
sides  account  amounting  to  $18.  for  painting  9  Aprons, 
and  ordered  to  be  paid. 

July  21,  :Z  Si  ^.—Special  Meeting.  4pm  Present 
13  members  &  5  visitors  Dispensation  to  E.  P.  &  R. 
Joseph  Rush. 

A  Sea  Captain,  aged  21-|-  years  in  Lodge  No.  2  to 
the  Sublime  Degree  of  a  Master  Mason,  it  appearing 

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that  lie  is  about  to  leave  the  State  and  cannot  wait 
the  usual  delays  required  by  the  Bye-Laws  of  the 
Lodge,  if  the  same  should  meet  the  approbation  of 
the  Lodge. 

July  21,  i(5:Z(}.— Adjourned  Lodge.  7  p.  m  Pres- 
ent 22  members  &  7  visitors 

Brothers  Evan  Davis  and  Joseph  E.  Collins  were 
severally  examined  in  open  Lodge  on  the  first  degree 
of  Masonry  and  were  found  duly  qualified  to  be 
passed  to  the  degree  of  a  fellow  craft. 

July  25,  i(Si(9.— Adjourned  Lodge.  2  p.  m  Pres- 
ent 22  members  &  2  visitors 

A  Master  Masons  Lodge  was  opened  in  Ample 
Form.  The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read. 
The  Lodge  finished  the  Examination  of  the  witnesses 
in  the  case  of  Eeisch  and  Bringhurst. 

August  13,  i8:Z6>.— Stated  Night.  Present  21  mem- 
bers &  8  visitors.  The  Grand  Annual  Communication 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pa  (accompanied  with  a  Plan 
of  the  New  Hall  of  the  Grand  Lodge)  was  received 
and  read 

August  18,  i (Si ^.—Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  9 
members  «&  2  visitors 

September  10,  JSiO.— Special  Lodge.  5pm  Pres- 
ent 8  members  &  4  visitors  Dispensation  to  E.  P.  & 
R.  John  McCloud. 

September  10,  iSi^.— Stated  Night.  7.  p  m  Pres- 
ent  30   members   &  21   visitors,    Grand   Visitation— 

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R.  W.  Jas.  Milnor,  G.  M,-R.  W.  Peter  Le  Barbier 
Duplessis,  D.  G.  M.-R.  W.  Richard  Tybout,  S.  G. 
W,-R.  W.  Joseph  Burden,  G.  G.  W.  R.  W,-Geo. 
A.  Baker  Gr'd  Sect'y,-R.  W.  Samuel  F.  Bradford, 
Gr'd  Treas.— R.  W.  Tho^  Hennessy,  D.  G.  Sect'y.— 
Thos.  Elliott,  J.  Gr'd.  D.  &  John  Phillips  Gr'd 
Pursuivant. 

Brothers  Evan  Davis  and  Joseph  E.  Collins  were 
severally  examined  in  open  Lodge  on  the  first  degree 
of  Masonry  and  were  found  duly  qualified  to  be  passed 
to  the  degree  of  a  fellow  craft. 

A  Master  Masons  Lodge  was  opened  in  Ample 
Form.  The  Minutes  of  the  last  Meeting  were  read. 
The  Lodge  finished  the  Examination  of  the  witnesses 
in  the  case  of  Reisch  and  Bringhurst. 

During  the  year  5809  the  following  Lodges  were 
constituted  viz:  Lodge  N°.  113,  at  Pittsburgh,  "Solo- 
mon's Lodge"  N°.  114  held  at  Philadelphia. 

"On  the  15'\  September,  1806,  the  R.  W.  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  adopted  the  following  resolu- 
tion respecting  the  pretended  Grand  Lodge  of  Dela- 
ware to  wit:  'Resolved  that  this  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge 
cannot  recognise  the  pretended  Grand  Lodge  of  the 
State  of  Delaware,  nor  any  other  Grand  Lodge  until 
the  Brethren  have  formed  themselves  in  that  regular 
manner  pointed  out  by  the  antient  Constitutions  and 
agreeably  to  the  known  usages  of  Masonry;'  in  con- 
sequence of  which  resolution  none   of  the  members 

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of  the  said  pretended  Grand  Lodge  of  Delaware,  or 
of  any  of  its  pretended  subordinate  Lodges,  can  be 
admitted  into  this  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge,  or  into  any 
of  the  Lodges  under  its  jurisdiction.  This  Grand 
Lodge  knows  of  but  one  regular  and  Lawful  Lodge 
in  the  State  of  Delaware,  which  is  Lodge  N°.  5,  held 
at  Cantwell's  bridge  under  the  jurisdiction  of  this 
Grand  Lodge." 

On  Motion  Resolved  that  the  Secretary  be  directed 
to  notify  each  of  the  Conunittee  appointed  on  the 
Bye-Laws  of  the  anxious  wish  of  the  Lodge  that  they 
report  at  the  next  Stated  meeting. 

The  Worshipful  Master  and  Officers  of  the  Lodge 
left  their  stations  and  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  and 
Grand  Officers  assumed  them.  The  R.  W.  Grand 
Master  implored  a  Divine  Benediction  upon  the 
Labours  of  the  Lodge,  after  which  the  R.  W.  Deputy 
Grand  Secretary  made  the  following  Report  on  the 
Minutes  of  the  Lodge. 

"To  James  Milnor  Esquire,  Right  Worshipful 
Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  and  for  the  Common- 
wealth of  Pennsylvania  and  Masonic  Jurisdiction 
thereunto  belonging. 

"The  Deputy  Grand  Secretary  to  whom  the 
Book  of  Transactions  of  Lodge  N°.  2  since  the 
last  Grand  visitation  was  referred  for  Inspection 
by  the  Right  Worshipful  the  Grand  Secretary. 

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'^Kespectfully  reports 

''That  he  has  attended  to  that  duty  and  finds  that 
the  members  present  at  the  Stated  meetings  of  said 
Lodge  have  been  generally  from  14  to  23  with  a 
number  of  visitors. 

"That  there  have  been  26  Initiations  in  said  Lodge 
since  the  last  Grand  Visitation  and  some  brethren 
admitted  as  members  thereof. 

''That  the  minutes  of  the  13'^  FeV.  1809  State  that 
a  Committee  was  appointed  to  inquire  into  the  charge 
made  by  a  B""  Eeisch  against  a  B""  Bringhurst,  which 
charge  does  not  appear  to  have  been  read  in  open 
Lodge  or  what  was  the  nature  of  said  charge,  your 
Deputy  Grand  Secretary  respectfully  conceives  that 
as  the  Book  of  Constitution  furnishes  ample  informa- 
tion on  that  subject  the  instructions  therein  given 
should  be  strictly  adhered  to. 

"That  the  minutes  of  the  9"^  October  1809  state  that 
B""  Irwin  having  been  examined  and  found  worthy 
"he  was  duly  prepared  and  passed,  &c."  which  prepa- 
ration it  is  respectfully  conceived  is  improper  to  be 
inserted  in  the  minutes  of  a  Lodge  &  a  similar  En-or 
has  crept  in  the  minutes  of  the  IS'*".  November  1809 
relate  to  the  passing  of  B''  Burrough. 

"That  so  far  as  can  be  judged  from  the  minutes 
it  appears  that  all  the  labours  of  said  Lodge  N°.  2, 
Except  as  above  have  been  conducted  with  great 
regularity   and  perfectly   consistent  with   the   Land- 

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marks  of  the  Craft,  all  which  is  respectfully  submitted 
to  the  consideration  of  your  Worship 

"Thomas  Hennessy,  Dep.  Grand  Sec".'' 
''Philad^  10^  September  1810." 

The  R.,  W.  Gr.  M.  again  implored  a  divine  benedic- 
tion upon  the  labours  of  the  Lodge  after  which  the 
G-rand  Officers  left  their  stations  and  the  officers  of 
the  Lodge  resumed  them 

''Resolved  that  the  sum  of  $250.  be  granted  to  this 
Lodge  to  the  Grd  Lodge  of  Pa  to  aid  them  in  com- 
pleting the  New  Masonic  Hall" 

September  15,  i(Si(?.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
15  members  &  2  visitors  Communication  from  Grd 
Lodge  relative  to  New  Hall 

October  8,  iSiO.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  26  mem- 
bers &  7  visitors 

Visitors : — 

Joseph  Burrows,    58  Belfast  J.  Eush  $1. — 

Ireland  M.  Cloud  .50 

Anthony  Yelrick,   31  London  Sausman  .50 

A.  Uz  72  Phila.  2700 

R.  Milnor  51       do 

E.  A.  Lodge  opened  and  minutes   approved. 

W.  M.  appointed  Wm  Hamilton  S.  D.  in  the  place 
of  Thomas  Irwin  resigned  &  James  Cutbush  J.  D.  in 
the  place  of  Wm  Hamilton  promoted. 

Brother  Alexander  Knight  was  Examined  in  open 
Lodge  on  the  Fellow  Crafts  degree  and  found  worthy 
to  be  raised. 

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The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  Cap*.  Adam 
Dickey  for  Charity  reported  that  they  had  relieved 
him  with  the  sum  of  Ten  Dollars.  The  Master 
Mason's  Lodge  closed  and  an  Entered  Apprentice's 
Lodge  opened.  The  following  Bills  were  presented 
and  ordered  to  be  paid:  Tyler's  Bill  $15.27;  E.  T. 
Weaver's  for  making  Jewel  for  the  Master  of  Cere- 
mony and  repairing  the  Jewels  of  the  officers,  $14; 
and  Lefevre  &  Gravilles'  Bill  for  making  a  Sword 
$18. 

November  12,  i8i(?.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  26 
members  &  30  visitors. 

Visitors : — 

Moses  Niel,  formerly  N°.  2  J.  Fullen  N".  67 

Thomas  Irwin     do  H.  Sausmau  19 

John  Rebosis,  Tirniti  N°.  10  J.  L.  Baker  91 

Augiistin  Ghio  Abrams  Lodge,  E.  T.  Weaver  50 

No.  15  N.  York.  G.  W.  Bartram         91 

John  Dunman,  Salem  D.  Bartling  72 

Lodge,  N".  19.  Lake  19 

Matthew  Clufe,  Norfolk,  J.  Stuart  67 

Virginia  M.  Heartley  67 

Joseph  H.  Stretch,  18  R.  Tice  2 

Mount  Holly  New  York 

Charles  F.  Lot,      do  S.  P.  Watkins  91 

Zachariah  Rossel  N°.  18  Hoops  19 

Social  Lodge,   Augusta,  Conner. 

Georgia.  Hunt. 

Petitions  for  initiation  were  received  this  evening. 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  Bohan  Martin 
reported  favorably  of  him  he  was  ballotted  for  and 
rejected. 

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The  sum  of  20  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity. 

The  Lodge  adjourned,  to  meet  on  Saturday  even- 
ing next  the  17th  at  6  Oclock. 

November  17,  i<SiO.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
17  members  &  8  visitors. 

Yisitors : — 

E.  T.  Weaver  N°.  50,  West  Chester 
Joahn  Rebous  No.  10    Triniti 
Nelson  N°.     9    Philadelphia 

F.  Malat  67  do 
Lake                                      19 

A.  Longinatto  52  " 

S.   Pitehetti,   Abrams  Lodge,  N°  15  N.  York 

Domiiiieo  Ghio,  N°.  20   N.  York 

An  Entered  Apprentice's  Lodge  was  opened  in 
Ancient  form  and  the  minutes  of  the  last  stated  meet- 
ing read.  A  Petition  was  presented  from  Charles 
Meld  formerly  a  member  of  N°.  2  stating  his  distress 
and  praying  for  relief.  A  Committee  was  appointed 
and  Twenty  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  to  relieve 
him  with  if  found  worthy.  Lodge  closed  in  Harmony 
at  8  o'clock  P.  M. 

December  10,  l<Si(?.— Special  Lodge.  3  p.  m.  Pres- 
ent 16  members. 

Humphry  Scull,  Entered  Passed  &  Raised  by  Dis- 
pensation. 

David  Nieldson,  Crafted. 

December  10,  iSiO.— Stated  Lodge.  6.30  p.  m. 
Present  38  members  &  12  visitors. 

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Visitors : — 

E.  T.  Weaver 

NO.  50 

J.  Shaw                        19 

Conner 

71 

Nelson                            19 

P.  Boyle 

59 

McKaraker                    41 

E.  Fling 

59 

Washington  Naval  Lodge 

C.  L.  Bready 

52 

M.  Hartley                     67 

E.  Bawlby 

51 

Bozard 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  Rebecca  Bayard 
Reported  that  they  had  presented  her  with  five  dollars 
and  returned  five  to  the  Treasurer. 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  Lewis  Ge 
Ginochio  reported  that  they  had  relieved  him  with 
the  sum  of  Ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  Hands  for 
that  purpose. 

Resolved  unanimously  that  a  Committee  consisting 
of  three  Brothers  be  appointed  to  inquire  into  the 
situation  of  the  Families  of  our  late  deceased  Brethren 
Adam  Drewis  and  W.  V.  Knowles  and  that  the  Com- 
mittee report  the  result  of  their  inquiry  at  the  next 
meeting. 

The  Committee  on  the  Petition  of  Charles  Nield 
Reported  that  finding  him  sick  and  his  family  in  a 
distressed  situation  they  presented  him  with  Ten 
Dollars;  that  shortly  after  he  died  when  they  ad- 
vanced Eleven  Dollars  to  purchase  a  Coffin  to  inter 
him  in,  being  one  dollar  more  than  the  Lodge  had 
placed  in  their  hands.  On  motion  made  and  Seconded 
resolved  that  the  Committee  be  reimbursed  the  addi- 
tional dollar  advanced  by  them.  This  being  the  night 
for   the    Election   of   officers    of   the   Lodge   for    the 

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ensuing  Six  Months  commencing  on  St.  John's  Day- 
next.  The  Lodge  was  called  from  labour  to  refresh- 
ment for  the  space  of  Fifteen  minutes  to  prepare  for 
the  Election.  At  the  expiration  of  the  Fifteen 
minutes  the  Lodge  was  recalled  from  Eefreshment 
to  Labour.     The  Lodge  proceeded  to  the  Election. 

Election.  Norman  Burroughs,  W.  M.  George  A. 
Baker,  Jr.  S.  W.  James  Cutbush,  J.  W.  Joseph 
Burden,  Tr     John  0  Brien,  Secty 

Lodge  adjourned  at  9  Oclock  to  meet  on  Saturday- 
next  at  6  Oclock  in  the  evening. 

December  15,  i8i(?.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  16 
members  &  15  visitors  The  sum  of  20  Dollars  was 
granted  for  Charity. 

Oliver  M.  Becket,  Conard  Krichbaum  and  Abraham 
Winthevel  were  entered. 

The  following  Officers  were  installed  Norman  Bur- 
roughs, W.  M.  George  A.  Baker  Jr  S.  W.  James 
Cutbush,  J.  W.  Joseph  Burden,  Tr.  And  the  follow- 
ing appointed  Wm  Hamilton,  S.  D.  E.  W.  Carr, 
J.  D.  E.  Shelmerdine,  M.  C.  Wm  Euff  &  J.  N. 
Shaw,  Stewards.     Wm  Schneider,  Tyler. 

Brothers  Shaw  &  Collins  were  appointed  guard- 
ians for  Br  Becket. 

Br  Carr  &  Cutbush  were  appointed  guardians  for 
Br  Krichbaum,  and  Br.  Warner  &  Steinman  were  ap- 
pointed guardians  for  Br  Winthevel. 

Lodge  adjourned  to  meet  on  Tuesday  next  at  2 
Oclock  p.  m. 

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December  18,  iSiO.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
12  members  &  1  visitor  Bro  Thos.  Wilkins  Wood- 
bury Lodge  11  ''Br  Jenks  Williams  examined  in 
open  Lodge  on  the  first  Degree  of  Masonry  and  found 
worthy  to  be  passed." 

Br  Neildson  examined  in  the  Second  Degree,  and 
found  worthy  to  be  raised. 

Br  Williams,  Crafted.  Brothers  Kelly  and  Neild- 
son raised. 

December  20,  iSiO.— Special  Lodge.  Present  9 
members  &  4  visitors 


Yisitors 

Nelson  No.  19 
Snyder  72 

Lodge  opened  at  3  p.  m. 


KenseU  N°.  72 

E.  F.  Weaver  50 

By  dispensation  John 


Frietz  was  Entered  Passed  and  Raised.     Br  Emmor 
T.  Weaver  passed  to  the  Chair. 

January  14,  i<S^:Z.— Stated  Lodge.     Present  35  mem- 
bers &  7  visitors 


Visitors 

Lambert 

N°.  67 

David  Cox 

N°.  67 

Donnaldson 

19 

Bartram 

91 

Littleboy 

3 

Michi  Kensell 

72 

Baker 

91 

Br  J.  0  Brien  installed,  Secty  Br  Martin  and  Br 
Paterson  entered  Brothers  Bringhurt  &  Hollins  were 
appointed  guardians  to  Br.  Patterson,  &  Br  Warner 
&  Foster  to  Br  Martin. 

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Br  David  Neilson  requested  the  Lodge  would  recom- 
mend him  to  the  E.  W.  Gr.  M.  to  obtain  his  dispensa- 
tion to  pass  the  Chair  which  was  agreed  to. 

Brothers  Hamilton  &  Bringhurst  stated  in  open 
Lodge  that  they  had  voted  against  Bohen  Martin  on 
the  12'^  November  last  under  a  wrong  impression  and 
submitted  to  the  Lodge  the  propriety  of  taking  an- 
other ballot,  which  being  agreed  to,  he  was  ballotted 
for  and  unanimously  approved  of. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  inquire  into  the  circum- 
stances of  the  widows  of  our  deceased  Brothers 
Drewis  &  Knowles,  reported  that  they  had  visited 
them,  found  them  both  in  need  of  assistance  and 
recommended  them  as  worthy  of  being  assisted. 

On  motion  made  &  seconded,  resolved  that  Forty 
Dollars  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Committee 
appointed  10'"  December  last  to  relieve  the  Widows 
of  Brothers  Drewis  &  Knowles  with  Twenty  Dollars 
each  if  found  worthy 

A  petition  was  received  from  a  certain  Brother 
Jacob  Vanderslice  praying  relief,  whereupon  Brothers 
"Winner,  Steinman  &  Warner  were  appointed  to  en- 
quire into  his  situation  &  ten  Dollars  placed  in  their 
hands  to  relieve  him  if  found  Worthy.  Also  one 
from  Brother  Alexander  McClatchie  praying  relief 
whereupon  a  Committee  was  appointed  and  ten  Dol- 
lars placed  in  their  hands  to  relieve  him  if  found 
worthy. 

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A  Bill  amounting  to  Eight  Dollars  was  presented 
by  Brother  John  Philips  for  one  Doz.  Constitutions 
which  was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

Lodge  adjourned  to  meet  on  Saturday  next  the 
19th  at  6  Oclock  in  the  evening. 

January  16,  :Z<Sii.— Special  Lodge.  Present  2 
members  &  3  visitors  Br  David  Neilson  Passed  to 
the  Chair. 

January  19,  i Si :Z.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  15 
members  &  1  visitor  Rees  Jones  No  72 

Br  Oliver  M.  Becket  Crafted. 

A  Petition  regularly  recommended  was  received 
from  Elizabeth  AValters,  widow  of  George  A.  Walters 
deceased  who  was  formerly  a  member  of  Lodge  N°. 
3  of  this  City,  praying  relief  whereupon  a  Committee 
was  appointed  and  Ten  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands 
to  assist  her  if  found  worthy. 

A  Bill  was  presented  from  E.  I.  Weaver  amounting 
to  $5.50  for  a  sword  for  the  Master  of  Ceremonies 
which  was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

By  Laws,  Adopted. 

February  11,  i8ii.— Stated  Lodge.  Present  31 
members  «&  7  visitors. 


Visitors — 

B""  Conner 

71 

B"".  Donovan 

22 

Voight 

3 

Baxter,  Wash. 

16 

J.  Thompson 

71 

Kunkle,  IreF 

150 

The   Committee   appointed   to    relieve   the   Widow 

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Drewis,  reported  that  they  found  her  worthy  &  paid 
her  the  Twenty  Dollars  granted  last  stated  meeting. 
The  same  Committee  reported  that  they  had  paid  the 
Widow  Knowles  Twenty  Dollars  granted  same  time. 

The  Committee  appointed  last  stated  meeting  to 
relieve  B""  Jacob  Vanderlice  reported  that  they  found 
him  worthy  &  paid  him  the  Ten  Dollars  granted  for 
that  purpose. 

Brother  Bringhurst  stated  that  B^  Th°.  Marshall 
a  member  of  this  Lodge,  had  by  accident  about  three 
weeks  got  his  leg  broken,  &  in  his  opinion  stood  in 
need  of  assistance,  whereupon  on  motion  made  &  sec- 
onded it  was  resolved  that  Fifteen  Dollars  be  placed 
in  the  hands  of  a  Committee  to  relieve  him  if  they 
found  him  in  need. 

A  Petition  was  received  from  Elizabeth  Dickey 
widow  of  the  late  Brother  Adam  Dickey  praying 
relief,  whereupon  a  Committee  was  appointed  & 
fifteen  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  to  relieve  her  if 
found  in  distress  &'. 

The  Committee  appointed  19^^  January  last  to  re- 
lieve the  widow  of  George  A  Walters  reported  that 
they  found  her  in  distress  &  paid  her  Ten  Dollars  the 
sum  granted  her. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  relieve  Brother  John 
Kean  reported  that  they  found  him  in  distress  & 
paid  him  Twenty  Dollars,  being  the  amt.  granted  him. 

Visitors:— B^^  Parker,  late  of  N°.  91;  G.  Helmbold, 
72 ;  Thompson,  81. 

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Brothers  C.  Krichbaum,  Abraham  Winthevel  were 
examined  and  found  worthy  to  be  passed.  The  sum 
of  60  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity.  Application 
for  membership  was  received  this  evening. 

Br.  Krichbaum  being  in  waiting  was  introduced  and 
agreeably  to  Ancient  form  passed  to  the  degree  of  a 
Fellow  Craft  Mason. 

February  16,  :Z<9Ji.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present 
13  members  &  3  visitors 

A  petition  was  received  from  Anne  Robinson  widow 
of  Alexander  Robinson  formerly  a  member  of  old 
Lodge  N°.  2  praying  relief,  whereupon  a  Committee 
was  appointed  and  twenty  Dollars  placed  in  their 
hands  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  her. 

On  motion  made  &  seconded,  Resolved  that  a  Com- 
mittee be  appointed  to  settle  the  members  accounts, 
whereupon  Brother  Philips  George  A.  Baker  Jr.  & 
Burden  were  appointed. 

Br  Bohan  Martin,  Passed  Br  Oliver  M.  Becket, 
Raised. 

February  27,  iSi:Z.— Special  Lodge.  Present  10 
members  &  1  visitor 

By  dispensation  James  Robinson  was  Entered 
Passed  Raised. 

March  11,  i8:Zi.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  40  mem^ 
bers  &  16  visitors 

The  sum  of  50  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity. 
Petition  for  membership  was  received  this   evening. 

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From  a  certain  Brother  John  F.  Hopkins  a  master 
mason  &  formerly  member  of  Lodge  N°.  72  Ireland, 
praying  to  be  admitted  a  member  of  this  Lodge 

The  following  resolutions  were  offered,  and  agree- 
ably to  the  18'^  section  of  the  Bylaws  ordered  to  lie 
over  until  next  stated  meeting,  viz.: 

Resolved  That  every  Master  Mason  of  this  Lodge, 
should  sickness  or  other  disaster  befall  him,  to  which 
mankind  are  liable,  shall  receive  four  Dollars  per  week 
as  long  as  he  remains  incapable  of  performing  his 
usual  avocations. 

Resolved,  That  at  the  death  of  a  Master  Mason,  the 
widow  or  other  relatives,  shall  receive  forty  Dollars 
to  defray  the  funeral  expenses. 

Resolved,  That  in  order  to  put  the  foregoing  reso- 
lutions into  effect,  a  committee,  consisting  of  five, 
shall  be  elected  prior  to  St.  John's  Day,  whose  duty 
it  shall  be  to  attend  to  the  above  and  other  charitable 
purposes. 

Considering  the  suppers  or  refreshments  an  un- 
necessary expense,  and  in  order  to  increase  the  funds 
of  this  Lodge,  the  better  to  carry  into  effect  the  pur- 
poses of  Charity  Resolved,  that  the  said  suppers  or 
refreshments  be  abolished  except  on  the  nights  of 
Election. 

Br  C.  Krichbaum,  Raised 

A  bill  was  presented  from  the  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge, 
for  Grand  Lodge  dues,  amounting  to  $178.66  which 
was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

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The  resignation  of  Brothers,  James  M.  Shaw  & 
Henry  Eeisch  presented  last  stated  meeting  were 
accepted. 

March  16,  iSii.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  20 
members  &  7  visitors 

Visitors:— B^'.  John  F.  Hopkins,  72,  Ireland; 
Gabriel  Coit,  81,  Germant". ;  Saurman;  Sam'.  B.  Day, 
2,  Massach'.;  Bradley,  50;  C.  J.  Brooks,  (by  disp°. 
N°.  2) ;  Edw^  Charnley,  91. 

Brothers  Jenks  Williams,  Wintheval,  Martin  Eaised. 

March  26,  iSi:Z.— Special  Meeting.  Present  23 
members  &  16  visitors 

Visitors — 
B"-.  McKenzie  N°.  72 
Hopkins,  72  Ireland 
Rogers,  67  by  Dispensation 
W".  Wallace  67 
Homer  R.  Phillips,  Delhi  N.  Y. 
Henry    Lowther  do 

Da\is  S.  Dennis  do 

Elias  Enrijan  do 

Br  Leonard  Andrews,  Entered  Passed  Raised  by 
dispensation. 

April  8,  i(Sii.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  38  mem- 
bers &  18  visitors     William  Simon,  Initiated 

Br  Conner  &  Br  Hopkins,  Elected 

''Br  Smallman  (a  visitor)  presented  a  letter  from 
Br  Jonathan  Cuddle  stating  that  it  was  inconvenient 
for  him  to  attend  the  meetings  of  this  Lodge  &  re- 
questing leave  to  withdraw  on  payment  of  his  dues 

25  385 


B""  Martin  Lane  Morton 

N°.  91 

L.  A.  Livingston 

28 

J.  S.  Kay 

67 

Bradford 

it 

Steward 

it 

Gabriel   Coit 

(I 

David   Comly 

it 

Jon'^.  Johnson 

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&  that  the  Lodge  would  recommend  him  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  so  that  he  might  obtain  a  certificate.— which 
was  agreed  too. " 

The  Entered  Apprentice's  Lodge  was  closed  and 
all  who  were  not  Master  Masons  having  withdrawn 
a  Master  Masons  Lodge  was  opened,  when  the  report 
of  the  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  charge 
of  Brother  Charles  J.  Brooks  against  Brother  W™. 
Meguire  was  taken  into  consideration,  &  after  some 
debate  the  Committee  were  ordered  to  produce  the  evi- 
dence which  induced  them  to  make  the  report.  The 
Committee  then  produced  the  charge  made  by  Bro. 
Charles  J.  Brooks  against  Brother  W"".  Meguire,  & 
Copies  of  S"^  Brooks  obligation  to  Norman  Burrough 
&  Co.  and  Norman  Burrough  &  Co's  receipt  from 
William  Hamilton  &  William  Meguire  for  said  obliga- 
tion of  which  the  following  are  copies. 

Bro  Smallman  (a  visitor)  presented  a  letter  from 
Brother  Jonathan  Criddle  stating  that  it  was  incon- 
venient for  him  to  attend  the  meetings  of  his  Lodge 
&  requesting  leave  to  withdraw  on  paym'.  of  his  dues 
&  that  the  Lodge  would  recommend  him  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  so  that  he  might  obtain  a  certificate  which  was 
agreed  to. 

The  Grand  Annual  Communication  from  the  Eight 
Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  of  Dec. 
3^  A.  L.  5810,  also  a  Communication  from  the  R.  W. 
Grand  Lodge  of  1^'  April  1811  containing  the  report 

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of  the  Committee  for  making  arrangements  for  the 
conducting  the  procession  on  the  dedication  of  the 
New  Hall,  &  for  devising  ways  &  means  of  defray- 
ing the  expenses  thereof,  and  also  fifty  copies  of  the 
R.  W.  Gr.  Master's  address  to  the  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge 
3  Dec^  5810,  circular  charges  to  the  ditferent  Lodges 
held  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia  in  the  month  of 
Septem''.  5810,  and  also  the  R.  W.  Gr.  Master's  circular 
charges  to  the  Masters,  officers  and  Brethren  of  the 
County  Lodges,  were  received  from  the  R.  W.  Grand 
Secretary.  Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  a  2""  past 
Ten  O'clock,  and  adjourned  to  Saturday  Evening  20 
Jun.  at  Seven  0 'Clock 

April  20,  iSii.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present  9 
members  &  6  visitors 

The  sum  of  15  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity,  viz 
10.00  to  widow  Sarah  Rutter  and  5.00  to  Mary  Woch 
recommended  by  Lodge  No  125 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referr'd  the  com- 
plaint of  Brother  Mantley  John  Littleboy  a  member 
of  Lodge  N°.  3  being  ready  to  report,  the  charge  of 
B""  Littleboy  was  ordered  to  be  read. 

May  13,  i<Sii.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  34  mem- 
bers &  22  visitors 

The  sum  of  50  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity  viz 
Bro  Charles  J.  Brooke  15.00  Henry  Hiss  5.00  Dane 
D.  Smith  20.00  widow  Ellis  15.00 

The  Committee  appointed  11  March  last  to  have  the 

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aprons  cleaned  were  discharged,  and  on  motion  made 
&  seconded,  Resolved  that  a  Committee  be  apjDointed 
to  jDurchase  new  hangings  &  aprons  for  the  officers 
and  as  many  aprons  for  the  members  as  they  may 
consider  necessary  and  to  have  the  Jewels  cleaned, 
whereupon  Brother  Phillips,  John  Douglass  &  Meguire 
were  appointed.  Brother  Phillips  presented  a  bill 
for  a  dozen  Books  of  Constitutions  amount^  to  $8 
which  was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

Mai^  18,  iSii.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present  20 
members  &  6  visitors 

Br  Joseph  D.  Martin,  Br  Wm  Simon,  Passed. 

A  Letter  of  which  the  following  is  a  Copy  was 
presented  &  read,  viz 

Worshipful  IMaster  &  Brethren  of  Lodge  N°.  2. 
Brethren: 

I  beg  leave  to  acknowledge  the  favor  conferred  on  me 
through  your  respectable  committee  Mess''^.  Philhps,  Cluly  & 
Hamilton,  and  to  return  you  my  most  sincere  thanks  for  the 
favours  done  me.  I  would  also  beg  leave  to  state  that  tho' 
my  misfortunes  have  compelled  me,  through  my  friends,  to 
make  application  to  your  Worshipful  Lodge  for  Relief,  yet 
I  beg  you  will  not  consider  the  amount  paid  by  the  Committee 
as  a  gratuity  but  as  a  Loan,  which  will  be  returned  by  me 
with  pleasure  when  my  abilities  will  enable  me  to  do  so. 

I  am  Brethren  with  sentiments  of  gratitude  &  respect, 
your  obliged  &  ob*. 

(signed)     Charles  J.  Brooks 

Phila.  IT'''  May  1811 

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June  10,  iSii.— Special  Meeting  half  past  five  P.  M. 
Present  18  members  &  5  visitors 

Br  Joseph  D.  Martin,  Raised  Lodge  closed  6.45 
p  m. 

June  10,  iSJi.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  41  mem- 
bers &  13  visitors 

The  sum  of  35  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity 

The  Committee  appointed  to  relieve  Brother  Kees 
reported  that  they  did  not  consider  him  worthy  of 
assistance  and  the  money  granted  last  stated  meeting, 
the  Committee  returned  the  Treasurer. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  relieve  B^  Dan\  D. 
Smith  reported  that  they  found  him  worthy  and  paid 
him  the  Twenty  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  which 
he  promised  to  repay  the  Lodge  when  able 

The  Committee  appointed  to  inquire  into  the  cir- 
cumstances of  M''^  Ellis  reported  that  they  found  her 
worthy  &  in  distress  and  gave  her  the  fifteen  Dollars 
placed  in  their  hands 

"The  Committee  appointed  to  purchase  two  Ivory 
Gavels  and  two  Columns  reported  (verbally)  that  they 
had  procured  the  Gravels  and  that  the  Columns  were 
getting  ready,  they  also  presented  a  bill  for  the 
Gavels  amounting  to  $4  50/100  which  was  ordered  to 
be  paid." 

This  being  Election  night  the  following  Officers  were 
Elected  Br  James  Cutbush,  W.  M.  Edward  W. 
Carr,  S.  W.  Edward  Shelmardine,  J.  W.  John 
Phillips,  Secty     Joseph  Burden,  Treas'" 

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*'0n  motion  made  &  Seconded,  resolved  that  the 
members  of  this  Lodge  dine  together  on  St  Johns 
day  next  whereupon  a  committee  consisting  of 
Brothers  Cutbush,  Winner,  Warner  Stienman  & 
Bellings  were  appointed  to  provide  a  suitable  place 
for  Dining  in. 

The  W.  M.  appointed  Br  Cluly  to  act  as  Marshall 
of  this  Lodge  at  the  procession  on  St  Johns  day 
next. ' ' 

''A  Communication  was  received  from  the  R.  W. 
Grand  Secretary  containing  the  order  of  procession 
and  that  tickets  for  the  procession  and  Masonic 
Banquet  on  St  Johns  day  24th  June  next  were  ready 
for  delivery  at  the  ojfice  of  the  Grand  Secty  which 
communication  and  were  ordered  to  be  deposited 
among  the  archives  of  the  Lodge." 

June  15,  i^ii.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present  20 
members  &  4  visitors 

The  sum  of  40  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity— 
viz— 

A  Committee  consisting  of  Brothers  Cutbush  Carr 
&  Shelmardine  were  appointed  to  inquire  into  the 
circumstances  of  our  Worshipfull  Master  Brother 
Norman  Burroughs  &  twenty  Dollars  for  his  relief 
if  necessary. 

On  motion  made  &  seconded  Resolved  that  Brother 
Cutbush  be  authorized  to  deliver  on  oration  before 
the  members  of  this  Lodge  who  may  dine  together  on 
St.  John's  day  next. 

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Bills  were  presented  for  making  and  gilding  two 
columns  amounting  to  Twentynine  Dollars,  which  was 
ordered  to  be  paid 

A  petition  was  received  from  a  certain  B^  A,  J. 
Westheim  praying  relief  whereupon  a  committee  con- 
sisting of  Brothers  Warner,  Bellings  &  Williams 
were  appointed  &  five  Dollars  granted  for  his  relief, 
if  found  worthy,  one  from  B"".  Rob\  Fry  praying  re- 
lief, referred  to  the  same  commmittee  &  five  Dollars 
granted  him  if  found  worthy.  Also  one  from  M". 
Rachel  Michaels  praying  relief,  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee &  ten  Dollars  granted  her  if  found  deserving. 

By  dispensation  Br  George  A.  Baker  Jr.  was  passed 
to  the  Chair. 

W.  M.  James  Cutbush,  Installed  S.  W.  E.  W. 
Carr.  J.  W.  Edward  Shelmerdine  Treas""  Joseph 
Burden  Secty.  John  Phillips  Appointments  made, 
Br  Wm  Hamilton,  S.  D.  Wm  Ruff,  J.  D.  Joseph 
Duglass,  M.  C.  Wm  Schneider,  Tyler  Luther 
Barnes  &  Edward  Warner,  Stewards. 

By  dispensation  Br  Wm  Hamilton  passed  to  the 
Chair 

June  20,  JSii.— Special  Meeting.  Present  8  mem- 
bers. 

"Br  Kuhn  was  then  examined  in  open  Lodge  on  the 
first  degree  of  Masonry  and  found  perfect  therein  & 
judged  worthy  of  being  further  advanced,  where  upon 
the  E.  A.  Lodge  was  closed  and  a  fellow  C.  Lodge 

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opened,  and  Br  George  K.  Kuhn  was  introduced  & 
agreeably  to  Ancient  form  was  passed  to  the  Degree 
of  a  F.  C.  mason,  returned  gave  thanks  &  received 
a  Lecture  on  that  degree,  after  which  he  was  ex- 
amined in  the  F.  C.  degree  and  proved  himself  perfect 
therein  &  was  judged  to  be  deserving  of  further  ad- 
vancement in  Masonry." 

Br.  George  K.  Kuhn,  Eaised. 

June  22,  iSii.— Special  Meeting.  Present  8  mem- 
bers &  4  visitors 

Br  Wm  Bennett,  E.  P.  E.     Br  P.  Eeilly,  P.  E. 

July  8,  i8i:Z.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  30  mem- 
bers &  7  visitors 

The  sum  of  40  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity. 

A  bill  was  presented  from  Wm  Eenshaw  for  the 
use  of  a  room  &  candles  on  Saturday  last,  when  the 
Brethern  were  preparing  to  attend  the  funeral  of  our 
deceased  Brother  Phillips,  amounting  to  $23.72/100 
which  was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

The  following  letter  from  E.  W.  G.  M.  to  our 
W.  M.  was  read,  viz 

Dear  Sir  Brother 

I  enclose  you  a  licence  for  Masonic  honors  to  be  paid  to 
the  memory  of  our  deceased  Br  Phillips  to  which  Br.  Baker 
will  affix  my  Seal  to  give  it  the  requisite  formality,  as  it  will 
be  proper  for  you  to  make  report  of  the  Circumstance  to  the 
Lodge  at  their  next  meeting,  and  have  it  entered  on  the 
minutes. 

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I  regret  much  that  I  find  myself  so  much  indisposed  this 
morning  as  to  make  it  impossible  for  me  to  join  you  as  I 
had  intended. 

With  sincere  and  affectionate  regards 

I  remain  Sir  Brother 

Yours  fraternally 
(Signed)  James  Milnor 

6  July  1811 

Which  letter  was  accompanied  by  the  Licence 
alluded  to  there  in.  And  the  W.  M.  stated  to  the 
Lodge  the  in  consequence  there  of  our  deceased  Br 
John  Phillips  was  interred  with  Masonic  honors  on 
Saturday  last  at  Eleven  Oclock  in  the  fore-noon. 

It  being  stated  to  the  Lodge  that  our  worthy  B^ 
Phillips  who  was  elected  Sec'',  last  stated  meeting  had 
died  suddenly  on  Friday  last,  Brother  O'Brien  volun- 
teered his  services  to  act  as  Secretary  pro  tern,  untill 
St.  John's  day  next,  for  the  benefit  of  the  deceased 
Brother  Phillips'  widow  and  children  which  being 
agreed  to  a  motion  was  made  &  seconded  that  the 
widow  Phillips  be  paid  the  six  months  salary  in  ad- 
vance, which  was  agreed  to  and  Brothers  Cluly,  Bur- 
den &  J.  D.  Martin  were  appointed  a  committee  & 
twenty  five  Dollars  granted,  being  six  months  salary 
to  St.  John's  Day  next. 

Brother  John  Phillips,  who  for  fifteen  years  was 
an  enthusiastic  member  of  Lodge  No.  2  as  well  as  of 
the  Grand  Lodge,  was  a  man  of  literary  attainments. 
He  kept  a  book  store  and  circulating  library  for  some 

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years  at  No.  24  South  Fourth  Street,  below  Market, 
later  in  Third  Street,  east  side  a  few  doors  above 
Spruce  Street. 

His  memory  is  still  kept  green  in  the  history  of  our 
Grand  Lodge  by  his  "Freemason's  Companion  or 
Pocket  Preceptor,"  compiled  for  the  use  of  the  craft, 
published  in  Philadelphia,  1805.  This  work  was  dedi- 
cated to  Israel  Israel,  Esq.,  R.  W.  G.  M.  of  Penn- 
sylvania; also  by  the  large  oil  painting  of  Solomon's 
Temple  said  to  be  over  three  hundred  years  old,  which 
was  presented  to  Lodge  No.  2  by  his  efforts.  This 
painting  has  lately  been  restored  and  now  occupies 
a  prominent  position  in  the  Museum  of  the  Grand 
Lodge. 

Brother  Phillips  died  on  the  evening  of  Friday, 
July  5,  1811,  and  was  buried  at  eight  o  'clock  upon  the 
following  (Saturday)  morning  as  appears  from  the 
following  notice  from  Poulson's  Advertiser: 

Died  last  Evening  ]\Ir  John  Phillips  Librarian  His 
friends  and  Masonic  Brethren  are  invited  to  attend  his 
funeral  this  A.  M.  at  8  0 'Clock,  from  his  late  dwelling 
opposite  the  Mansion  house. 

The  following  elegiac  lines  were  written  in  com- 
memoration of  his  decease: 

For  worth  departed,  tears  of  sorrow  flow — 
Science  and  Friendship  mourn  in  silent  woe ; 
In  each  pursuit,  to  honor's  precepts  true, 
John  Phillips  claims  this  tribute  as  his  due; 
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Truth  and  science  acknowledged  him  their  own; 
Each  in  its  sphere  a  constellation  shone; 
Reader,  attend  and  emulate  his  plan; 
Be  what  he  was — a  strictly  honestly  man. 

The  Committee  appointed  15*''.  June  to  relieve  M'■^ 
Eachael  Michaels  reported  that  they  found  her  worthy 
&  paid  her  the  ten  Dollars  gi'anted  her. 

The  Committee  appointed  15^^  June  to  relieve  B"" 
Bob*.  Fry  reported  they  considered  him  deserving  & 
in  distress  &  paid  him  the  five  Dollars  granted. 

The  Committee  apj)ointed  IS'*"  June  to  relieve  B^ 
N.  Burroughs  reported  that  they  found  him  in  distress 
and  granted  him  the  Twenty  Dollars  granted. 

The  Committee  appointed  15*"  June  to  relieve  B^ 
Westheim  reported  that  "under  present  circumstances 
they  do  not  feel  justifiable  in  granting  him  the  money 
placed  in  their  hands"  and  returned  the  five  Dollars 
to  the  Lodge. 

A  bill  was  presented  from  John  Mein  amounting 
to  Six  Dollars  for  gilding  &  Japanning  two  Columns 
which  was  ordered  to  be  paid, 

A  bill  was  presented  for  painting  Ten  Aprons 
amounting  to  Twenty  Dollars  which  was  ordered  to 
be  paid 

John  Busman  being  in  waiting  was  introduced  & 
agreeably  to  ancient  form  initiated  in  the  first  degree 
of  Masonry,  returned  thanks,  rec'd  a  Lecture  &  paid 
his  initiation  fee  of  Thirtyfive  Dollars. 

On   motion   made    &    seconded,    resolved    that   the 

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thanks  of  the  Lodge  be  granted  to  the  Committee 
appointed  to  prepare  a  Dinner  on  St.  John's  Day  last. 

Eesolved  that  the  thanks  of  this  Lodge  be  given 
to  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  for  his  acquiescence  in 
granting  a  license  or  dispensation  for  burying  the 
body  of  our  much  respected  Brother  John  Phillips, 
Past  Master  of  this  Lodge,  in  Masonick  form. 

Resolved  that  the  warmest  thanks  of  this  Lodge  be 
presented  to  our  worthy  and  respected  Brother  the 
Rev*^.  George  Richards  for  his  prompt  compliance 
with  the  requisition  of  the  Worshipfull  Master  of  this 
Lodge  in  assisting  in  the  solemn  rites  of  Masonick 
funeral  service  and  for  the  present  of  his  edition  of 
Preston's  Masonry. 

Resolved  that  our  thanks  be  given  to  Brother  Grand 
Secretary  for  his  attention  &  presence  at  the  funeral 
of  our  worthy  Brother. 

Resolved  that  the  thanks  of  this  Lodge  be  given  to 
Brother  Elliott  for  his  polite  attention  in  loaning  the 
Wands  of  his  Lodge  for  the  funeral  procession. 

The  above  resolutions  were  severally  put  &  car- 
ried unanimously. 

Brothers  John  Busman  &  "Wm  Bevan,  Initiated 


CHAPTER   XXI. 

The  New  Masonic  Haul.,  Chestnut  Steeet, 
1811-1819. 

HE  second  cycle  of  the  Masonic  year 
of  light  5811  was  ushered  in  by 
the  grand  celebration  incident  to  the 
dedication  of  the  new  Masonic  Hall 
on  Chestnut  Street,  which  had  been 
erected  by  the  Brethren  of  the  Grand  and  Subordi- 
nate Lodges  of  Philadelphia. 

The  want  of  convenient  room  in  the  hall  in  Filbert 
Street  led  to  consultations  as  to  the  proper  site  for 
a  more  extensive  structure.  A  lot  which  was  sug- 
gested by  many  was  situated  on  the  north  side  of 
Chestnut  Street,  between  Seventh  and  Eighth.  It 
was  of  good  size,  and  had  been  used  occasionally  for 
public  purposes. 

The  result  of  the  inquiries  made  upon  the  subject 
was  that  the  Grand  Lodge  determined  to  secure  the 
Chestnut  Street  lot.  Preparations  were  immediately 
made  for  the  erection  of  the  building.  Brother 
William  Strickland  was  selected  as  the  architect,  and 

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PLACE    OF    MEETING    OF    THE    GRAND     LODGE    OF     PENNSYLVANIA, 

MASONIC     HALL,     1811-1819.        DESTROYED     BY     FIRE,     MARCH     gth,     1819, 

CHESTNUT     STREET,     BETWEEN      SEVENTH     AND      EIGHTH,     NORTH     SIDE, 

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Brother  Jolm  Darragh  was  nominated  as  master 
builder.  The  Gothic  order  of  architecture  was  fol- 
lowed in  the  plan  of  the  edifice.  The  building  as  pro- 
posed measured  in  front  82  feet,  and  in  depth  69  feet. 
The  lot  is  101  feet  7  inches  front  on  Chestnut  Street, 
by  178  feet  in  depth  to  Lodge  Alley.  The  edifice  was 
to  be  placed  back  at.  a  distance  of  50  feet  from  a 
dwarf  wall,  which,  with  railings  and  gateways,  came 
out  to  the  line  of  Chestnut  Street.  The  distance  at 
which  the  building  stood  from  the  street  was  calculated 
to  give  effect  to  the  view.  The  brick  work  in  front  was 
to  be  supported  by  buttresses  of  parti-colored  marble, 
enriched  with  niches  for  statues,  capped  by  triangular 
pinnacles,  connected  together  by  an  embattled  parapet 
capped  with  marble.  The  center  doorway  and  grand 
window,  between  the  buttresses,  was  rough-cast,  whilst 
the  brick  work  of  the  wings  was  plain.  A  wooden 
steeple,  180  feet  high  from  the  ground,  rose  from  the 
center  of  the  roof. 

On  November  21,  1808,  the  Grand  Lodge  adopted 
this  design.  Preparations  for  the  work  were  forth- 
with made,  and  on  the  morning  of  April  17,  1809,  at 
eight  o'clock,  the  corner-stone  of  the  new  hall  was 
laid,   in   due  Masonic  form,   by  the   Grand   Officers,^ 

^  The  Grand  officers  and  officials  who  participated  in  the  laying  of 
the  corner-stone  were  the  following : 

James  Mihior,  Esq.,  was  an  attorney  at  law,  and  lived  in  Chestnut 
Street,  first  house  below  Sixth,  north  side.  He  afterwards  studied 
divinity,  was  admitted  to  holy  orders,  and  was  known  as  the  Eev. 

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there  being  no  public  procession  at  that  time.    Messrs. 
George    A.    Baker,    Peter    Le    Barbier    Du    Plessis, 

Dr.  Milnor,  rector  of  St.  George's  Church,  Beekman  Street,  New 
York. 

Peter  Le  Barbier  Du  Plessis  was  a  conveyancer  and  sworn  inter- 
preter, who  resided  at  53  Walnut  Street. 

Thomas  Passmore  was  a  tinsmith,  who  lived  at  172  Market  Street. 
He  afterwards  became  a  celebrated  auctioneer. 

Richard  Tybout  was  a  hatter,  living  at  53  Chestnut  Street. 

George  A.  Baker,  the  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  was  a  con- 
veyancer at  23  Cherry  Street,  but  well  known  afterwards  at  the 
northeast  corner  of  Fourth  and  Cherry  Streets.  He  was  the  City 
Treasurer  for  some  years. 

Robert  Poalk  was  an  auctioneer,  residing  at  No.  43  North  Fourth 
Street.     This  gentleman  was  known  to  every  grocer  in  Philadelphia. 

John  Darragh,  the  master  builder,  lived  at  33  North  Fifth  Street, 
afterwards  in  Pine  Street,  above  Fifth. 

John  Griffith,  the  gentleman  who  presented  the  corner-stone,  was 
a  stone-cutter,  395  Market  Street,  between  Tenth  and  Eleventh 
Streets,  north  side. 

William  Stricldand,  architect,  lived  at  No.  262  Arch  Street.  At 
that  time  he  was  but  little  known.  He  studied  under  Benjamin  H. 
Latrobe.  His  first  important  architectural  work  was  the  old 
Masonic  Hall,  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia.  The  style  was  Gothic. 
His  next  important  work  was  the  United  States  bank,  modelled  after 
the  Parthenon  at  Athens,  and  finished  in  August,  1824.  He  now 
took  his  place  as  one  of  the  chief  architects  of  the  country,  and 
as  such  built  the  new  Chestnut  Sti'eet  Theatre,  the  Arch  Street 
Theatre,  United  States  custom-house,  St.  Stephen's  Episcopal 
Church,  the  Merchants'  exchange.  United  States  Mints,  and  the 
United  States  naval  asylum,  all  in  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Strickland 
was  one  of  the  first  architects  and  engineers  that  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  the  construction  of  railroads,  and  he  went  to  Europe  to  study 
the  system.  On  his  return  he  built  the  Delaware  breakwater  for 
the  United  States  government.  His  last  work  was  the  state-house 
at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  he  died  while  engaged  in  superintending 
its  construction.  By  a  vote  of  the  legislatuj^e  of  the  state  his 
remains  were  placed  in  a  crj^pt  in  that  edifice. 

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Richard    Tybout    and    Thomas    Passmore    were    ap- 
pointed the  building  committee. 

The  corner-stone  was  laid  at  the  northeast  comer 
of  the  building.  It  was  of  plain  marble,  without  a 
cavity.  Its  dimensions  were  four  feet  two  inches  in 
length,  and  two  feet  in  breadth.  The  stone  was  pre- 
sented and  the  inscription  cut  by  John  Grifl&th.^  [See 
opposite  page.] 

Monday  the  24*''  June,  1811,  being  the  Anniversary  of  S*. 
John  the  Baptist  the  Brethren  provided  with  Tickets  of  Ad- 
mission into  the  Procession  assembled  at  the  Old  College  Hall 
in  Fourth  Street,  near  Arch  Street,  at  8  o'clock  in  the  Morn- 
ing where  the  Procession  was  formed  by  Lodges,  according  to 
Juniority  and  proceeding  from  thence  at  10  o'clock  along  the 
East  side  of  Fourth  Street  to  the  South  side  of  Market  Street, 
along  the  South  side  of  Market  Street  to  the  East  side  of 
Eighth  Street,  along  the  East  side  of  Eighth  Street  to  the 
South  side  of  Arch  Street,  along  the  South  side  of  Arch  Street 
to  the  East  side  of  Sixth  Street,  along  the  East  side  of  Sixth 
Street  to  the  South  side  of  Race  Street  and  along  the  South 
side  of  Race  Street  to  S*.  John's  Church,  in  the  following 
Order  to  wit : 

Two  Trumpets. 
Tyler  with  drawn  Sword. 

Industry  Lodge  N°.  131,  in  the  following  Order,  Viz : 
Masters  of  Ceremonies  with  drawn  Swords. 
Enter 'd  Apprentices,  Two  and  Two. 
Fellow  Crafts,  Two  and  Two. 
Master  Masons,  Two  and  Two. 


Tliis  stone  is  now  in  the  Museum  of  the  Grand  Lodge  Library. 

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Past  Masters,  Two  and  Two. 

Deacons  with  their  Wands,  Blue  Tipt  with  White. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Wardens  of  the  Lodge,  bearing  their  Columns. 

Master  of  the  Lodge,  carrying  his  Mallet. 

On  the  Flank  of  the  Lodge,  One  of  the  Members  of  the 
Lodge  acting  as  Marshal  of  his  own  Lodge  in  the  Proces- 
sion and  bearing  a  Blue  Wand  Tipt  with  Silver. 

Phoenix  Lodge,  N°.  130;  Temple  Lodge,  N°.  128;  Philan- 
thropy Lodge,  N°.  127 ;  Eising  Star  Lodge,  N°.  126 ;  Her- 
man's  Lodge,  N".  125;  Union  Lodge,  N°.  121;  S^  John's 
Lodge,  N°.  115;  Solomon's  Lodge,  N°.  114;  Columbia  Lodge, 
N°.  91 ;  Lodge  Amenite,  N°.  73,  all  in  the  same  order,  as 
above. 

A  Military  Band  of  Music. 

Philadelphia  Lodge,  N°.  72 ;  Orange  Lodge  N°.  71 ;  Concordia 
Lodge,  N".  67 ;  Washington  Lodge,  N°.  59 ;  Harmony  Lodge 
N°.  52 ;  Lodges  N°^  51,  19,  9,  3,  2. 

Brethren  not  united  by  Membership  to  any  Lodge,  and  also 
Brethren,  Members  of  Lodges  under  other  Jurisdictions, 
Two  and  Two. 

A  Band  of  Military  Music. 
Grand  Lodge  in  the  following  Order,  Viz : 

Grand  Tyler  with  drawn  Sword. 

Members  of  the  New  Hall,  (or  Building,)  Committee,  (those 
Members  of  said  Committee  who  are  not  Grand  Officers, 
the  Grand  Officers  filling  their  proper  places  as  such,)  Two 
and  Two,  carrying  the  Key  of  the  New  Hall.^ 

Banner  of  Free  Mason's  Arms  borne  by  a  Past  Master. 

Twelve  Past  Masters,  Two  and  Two,  bearing  White  Wauds. 

Architect  carrying  the  Square,  Level  and  Plumb  Rule,  with 
the  Book  of  Architecture. 

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Those   Trustees  of   the   Masonic   Loan   who   are   not   Grand 

Officers,  Two  and  Two. 
Four  Past  Masters  carrying  the  Lodge  covered  with  White 

Satin. 
Two  Past  Masters  carrying  Golden  Pitchers  containing  Oil 

and  Wine. 
A  Past  Master  carrying  a  Golden  Cornu-Copiae,  containing 

Corn. 
The  Third  Light  borne  by  a  Past  Master. 
Past  Grand  Wardens. 

The  Second  Light  borne  by  a  Past  Master. 
Past  Deputy  Grand  Masters. 
The  First  Light  borne  by  a  Past  Master. 
Past  Grand  Masters. 

A  Past  Master  carrying  the  Holy  Bible,  Square  and  Com- 
passes on  a  Crimson  Velvet  Cushion,  supported  by  Two 

Past  Masters. 
Grand  Chaplains. 

Deputy  Grand  Secretary  carrying  the  Book  of  Minutes. 
Grand  Secretary  carrying  the  Book  of  Constitution  and  Grand 

Treasurer  carrying  his  Staff. 
Grand  Wardens  bearing  their  Columns. 
Grand  Officers  and  Officers   of  the   Grand  Lodges  of  New 

^  The  entire  cost  of  the  New  Hall  and  lot  is  as  follows,  to  wit : 
Purchase  money  paid  William  Wain,  in  extinguishment 

of  ground  rent  of  the  lot $14,166.67 

Cost  of  the  building  and  all  its  appurtenance 67,850.67^ 

Cost  of  Furniture,  etc.,  for  the  Hall,  and  all  other  ex- 
penses        4,962.78 

$86,980.12^ 
Add  thereto  the  cost  of  a  perpetual  insurance  effected  on 

the  Hall  in  September,  1813,  in  the  sum  of  $20,000.        860.00 

Total   cost,   including   insurance $87,840.12 J 

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Jersey  and  Maryland,  Two  and  Two. 
Deputy  Grand  Master. 
Grand  Sword  Bearer,  carrying  the  Sword  of  State,  and  a 

Past  Master  carrying  the  Golden  Mallet. 
Grand  Master. 

Two  Grand  Deacons  with  Wands,  Silvered  and  Tipt  with  Gold. 
Grand  Pursuivant  with  drawn  Sword. 
Two  Grand  Marshals,  on  Grey  Horses,  on  the  Flanks  of  the 

Procession,  superintended  the  Marshals  of  the  Subordinate 

Lodges  and  the  whole  Line  of  the  Procession  carrying  Blue 

Truncheons  Tipt  with  Gold. 
The  Distance  between  the  Files  in  the  Procession  was  6  Feet. 

The  Front  of  the  Procession  having  arrived  at  the  Church, 
the  Brethren  Halted,  faced  inwards  and  opened  their  Ranks. 
The  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge,  with  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  at 
their  Head,  moved  forward  through  the  Ranks,  the  Brethren 
uncovered  as  the  Grand  Lodge  passed  them,  closed  their 
Ranks  from  the  rear  and  followed  the  Grand  Lodge  into  the 
Church,  where  an  Oration,  adapted  to  the  occasion,  w^as  de- 
livered by  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master,  accompanied  wdth  pray- 
ers. Thanksgiving  and  Solemn  Music  in  the  following  Order, 
to  wit: 

On  the  entrance  of  the  Procession,  Voluntary  on  the  Organ, 
by  Brother  Robert  Taylor. 


Grand  Chorus. 
Written  by  Brother  John  Nisbet,  P.  M.  of  Lodge  N°.  126, 
composed  by  Brother  Robert  Taylor. 
Sung  by  the  Choir. 

Raise,  raise  the  Choral  strain, 
To  Hail  the  Noble  train, 
Of  Masons  bright, 
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Lo  !  where  the  social  band ! 
Honour'd   with   high   command, 
Still  fii'm  in  Wisdom  stand, 
Hail  Chiefs  of  Light ! 

Prayer. 
By  the  Reverend  Brotlier  George  Richards,  Grand  Chaplain. 


Masonic  Hymn. 

Composed  by  Brother  Robert  Taylor. 
Sung  by  the  Choir. 

Supreme  Grand  Master!   most  sublime! 
High  Thron'd  in  Glory's  radiant  clime; 
Behold  thy  Sons,  on  Bended  Knee, 
Conven'd,  0  God !   to  Worship  Thee ! 

And  as  'tis  Thine,  with  open  Ear, 
The  suppliant  Voice  of  Praj^er  to  hear. 
Grant  thou,  0  Lord!   this  One  request. 
Let  Masons  be,  in  blessing,  blest. 

0  give  the  Craft,  from  Pole  to  Pole, 
The  feeling  Heart,  the  pitying  Soul, 
The  gen'rous  Breast,  the  lib'ral  Hand, 
Compassion's  Balm,  and  Mercy's  band. 

With  Charity  that  pours  around, 
The  Wine  and  Oil,  on  IVIis'i-y's  wound; 
And  heals  the  Widow's,  Orphan's  Heart, 
Deep  pierc'd  hj  Sorrow's  Venom'd  Dart. 

Then  to  thy  Throne,  the  Craft  shall  raise 
One  Deathless  song  of  grateful  praise; 
And  Masons,  Men,  in  Chorus  join, 
To  Hymn  the  pow'r  of  Love  Divine. 
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ORATION  ON  MASONRY, 

DELIVBKEI}    AT 

ST.  JOHN'S  CHURCH,  IN  THE  CITY  OF  PHILADELPHIA 

AT    TUB    KKt^VZST    OF    THE 

RIGHT  WORSHIPFUL  GRAND  LODGE  OF  PENNSTLVANU, 
OJV  ST.  JOHJ^'S  JDAT,  JUJ^E  24,  1811, 

BY  JAMES  MILNOB,  ESQUIRE, 

GRAND  MASTER, 


TO  'WHJCS  li  PREriXEB 

AN  ACCOVNT  OF  THE  PROCESSION,  AND  0?  THE  CEREMONIE 
ATTENDING  THE  CONSECRATION  A_ND  DEDICATION   OF 

THE  NEW  MASONIC  HALU 

ORIGINAL  IN  GRAND  LODGE  LIBRARY,   MASONIC  TEMPLE,  PHILADELPHIA. 


Zlbe  IRew  noaeontc  Iball,  Chestnut  Street 

That  Love  supreme,  thy  Love,  0  God ! 
Which  Heav'n  itself  shall  pour  abroad; 
Till  Light,  Life,  Peace,  adorn  the  Vale, 
And  Angels,  Men,  pronounce  all  Hail! 


Oration  on  Masonry. 
By  Brother  James  Milnor,  Esq''.,  R.  W.  Grand  Master. 


Masonic  Hymn. 

Written  by  Brother  Joseph  Clay,  P.  M.  of  Lodge  N°.  3,  com- 
posed by  Brother  Carr,  Sung  by  Brother  Nisbet. 
Chorus  by  the  Choir. 

Before  revolving  Years  began. 
The  whole  Creation's  glorious  plan. 

Almighty  Wisdom  laid; 
But,  till  the  appointed  Time  should  pass, 
A  Void,  deformed  Chaotic  Mass, 

The  Universe  was  made. 

Nor  yet  had  Dawn'd  the  sacred  light. 
But  o'er  the  World,  primeval  Night, 

Held  undivided  sway: 
"  Let  there  be  Light  "  the  Almighty  spoke, 
As  the  First  beam  through  Chaos  broke. 

He  bless'd  the  Heavenly  ray. 

Then  starting  from  Confusion's  bed. 
Young  Order  heav'd  his  beauteous  Head, 

And  the  First  Day — Spring  Hail'd: 
'Twas  then  the  Rosy  Hours  were  bom, 
That,  blushing,  led  the  Orient  Mom, 

And  Nature's  Face  unveil'd. 

Then,  First,  the  teeming  Earth  appear'd; 
Then,  First,  the  Heavenly  Vault  was  rear'd, 
And  fill'd  with  Gloiy's  blaze; 
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On  Higli  the  Ruling  Lights  were  hung, 
While  Angel  to  Archangel  sung, 
Th'  Ahnighty  Master's  praise. 

His  Wisdom  saw  that  all  was  good; 
Beauty  with  Strength  united  stood. 

In  Harmony  eombin'd. 
The  gloomy  reign  of  Night  was  o'er, 
Hoarse  Discord's  Voice  was  heard  no  more, 

Disorder  stood  confin'd. 

'Twas  thus,  the  Human  race  remain'd 
In  hopeless  Bonds,  by  Passion  Chain'd, 

To  Ig-norance  and  Guilt; 
Till,  after  many  a  rolling  age. 
When  the  Wise  King,  and  Tyrian  Sage, 

The  Holy  Temple  Built. 

Then  intellectual  darkness  ceas'd. 
Majestic,  in  the  kindling  East, 

The  Sun  of  Masons  shone. 
Thence  to  the  West  the  Light  he  shed, 
To  us  the  bright  effulgence  spread. 

To  Masons  only  known. 

Thou,  who  did'st  into  being  call, 
Yon  rolling  Orbs,  this  Earthly  Ball, 

Thou  bad'st  Thy  Light  to  shine 
For  This — for  All  thy  Mercies,  Lord! 
But  Chiefly  for  Thy  Holy  Word, 

Eternal  praise  be  Thine. 


Prayer. 

By   the   Reverend  Brother  Doctor   William  Eogers,    Grand 
Chaplain. 


133^^  Psalm,  By  the  Choir. 

1.  Lo,  what  an  entertaining  sight 
Are  Brethren  that  Agree; 
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^be  1Rew  riDasonic  IbaU,  Chestnut  Street 

Brethren,  whose  cheerful  Hearts  unite 
In  Bands  of  piety! 

2.  'Tis  like  the  Oil,  Divinely  sweet. 

On  Aaron's  rev'rend  Head; 
The  trickling  drops  perfiim'd  his  Feet, 
And  o'er  his  garments  spread. 

3.  'Tis  pleasant  as  the  Morning  Dews 

That  fall  on  Zion's  Hill, 
Where  God  His  mildest  glory  shews. 
And  makes  His  grace  distil. 

Benediction. 
By  the  Eeverend  Brother  Doctor  Rogers. 


The  Society  were  Honoured  with  the  attendance  at  the 
Church  of  the  Honourable  Judges  of  the  several  Courts,  the 
Attorney  General  of  the  State,  the  Mayor,  Recorder,  and 
Alderman  of  the  City,  the  Reverend  Clergy  of  various  denom- 
inations, and  the  Directors  of  the  Academy  of  Fine  Arts,  to- 
gether with  many  other  respectable  Characters,  and  a  brilliant 
assemblage  of  Ladies. 

After  the  services  were  concluded,  the  Procession  was  again 
taken  up  in  the  same  Order  and  proceeded  from  the  Church 
along  the  South  side  of  Race  to  Fourth  Street,  along  the  East 
side  of  Fourth  to  Arch  Street,  along  the  South  side  of  Arch  to 
Third  Street,  along  the  East  side  of  Third  to  Chestnut  Street, 
and  along  the  South  side  of  Chestnut  Street  to  the  New  Hall. 
The  Front  of  the  Procession  having  arrived  at  the  New  Hall, 
the  Brethren  halted,  faced  inwards  and  opened  their  ranks 
as  before.  The  Members  of  the  New  Hall,  (or  building,)  Com- 
mittee, carrying  the  Key,  moved  on  to  the  Front  Door  of  the 
New  Hall,  unlocked  and  opened  the  same  on  the  approach  of 

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the  R.  W.  Grand  Master.  The  R.  W.  Grand  Master,  preceded 
by  the  Grand  Banner  bearer,  Grand  Pursuivant,  and  Grand 
Deacons,  followed  in  the  First  place  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  in 
the  Second  place  by  all  the  Masters  of  the  Lodges,  (who  left 
their  Lodges  as  the  Grand  Lodge  passed  by  them  and  fell  in 
immediatelj^  after  the  Grand  Lodge  according  to  Seniority), 
and  the  Third  place  by  the  remainder  of  the  procession,  clos- 
ing from  the  rear,  thereupon  entered  the  New  Hall  in  Ancient 
and  Solemn  Form. 

On  the  Grand  Masters  reaching  Solomon's  Chair,  the 
Officers  and  Members  took  their  Seats.  The  Lodge  was  then 
placed  in  the  Centre  of  the  Hall,  and  the  Three  Lights  with 
the  Golden  Cornu-copiae  and  Pitchers,  containing  Corn,  Wine 
and  Oil,  were  placed  thereon.  The  Bible,  Square  and  Com- 
passes on  a  Crimson  Velvet  Cushion  were  placed  on  the  Grand 
Master's  Pedestal,  and  the  Grand  Lodge  was  Tyled. 

Thirty  One  Lodges  being  represented  the  Lodge  was  un- 
covered and  Grand  Lodge  opened  in  Ample  Form,  when  an 
impressive  prayer  was  offered  up  by  the  Rev^.  Brother  Wil- 
liam Rogers,  D.  D.,  One  of  the  Grand  Chaplains. 

The  Grand  Secretary  intimated  to  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master, 
the  Architect's  desire  to  return  the  implements  entrusted  to 
his  care  in  the  erecting  of  the  Hall.  Whereupon,  Brother 
Darragh,  the  Architect,  addressed  the  Grand  Master,  who  ex- 
pressed his  high  satisfaction  at  the  completion  of  the  Hall, 
and  commanded  the  Grand  Wardens  to  receive  back  the  Im- 
plements, which  was  complied  with,  and  they  were  laid  on  the 
Lodge. 

The  Grand  Secretary  then  informed  the  Grand  Master  that 
it  was  the  desire  of  the  Brethren  to  have  the  Hall  Dedicated 
to  The  Grand  Architect  of  the  Universe  and  to  Masonry.  The 
Grand  Master  thereupon  commanded  his  Grand  Officers,  and 

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^be  mew  fiDaeonic  iball,  Chestnut  Street 

requested  the  favour  of  the  R.  W.  Grand  Masters  of  the  R.  W. 
Grand  Lodges  of  New  Jersey  and  Maryland,  and  of  his 
Venerable  predecessors,  the  R.  W.  Past  Grand  Masters  of 
Pennsylvania,  to  assist  in  that  Solemn  Ceremony. 

A  Dedication  Prayer  was  then  offered  up  by  the  Reverend 
Brother  George  Richards,  D.  D.,  One  of  the  Grand  Chaplains. 

The  Grand  Officers  then  made  a  Procession  round  the  Lodge 
Three  different  Times,  at  the  end  of  which  the  Grand  Master, 
strewing  Corn  over  the  Lodge,  declared  in  Solemn  Form  the 
Hall  Dedicated  To  The  Grand  Architect  of  The  Universe  and 
to  Masonry,  which  being  proclaimed  by  the  Grand  Secretary, 
the  Grand  Honours  were  given.  The  Grand  Officers  again 
made  a  Procession  round  the  Lodge  Three  different  Times,  at 
the  End  of  which  the  Grand  Master  pouring  Wine  over  the 
Lodge,  declared  in  Solemn  Form  the  Hall  Dedicated  To 
Virtue  and  Science,  which  being  proclaimed  by  the  Grand 
Secretary,  the  Grand  Honours  were  given  as  before.  The 
Grand  Officers  again  made  a  Procession  round  the  Lodge 
Three  different  Times,  at  the  end  of  which  the  Grand  Master 
pouring  Oil  on  the  Lodge  in  Solemn  Form,  declared  the  Hall 
Dedicated  to  Universal  Charity  and  Benevolence,  which  being 
proclaimed  by  the  Grand  Secretary,  the  Grand  Honours  were 
given  as  before. 

A  Consecration  Prayer  was  then  offered  up  by  the  Reverend 
Brother  Richards,  Grand  Chaplain,  and  the  Grand  Master 
returning  to  Solomon's  Chair. 

The  Thanks  of  the  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge  were  presented  to 
the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  for  the  elegant  and  Appropriate 
Oration  by  him  this  Day  delivered  in  S^  John's  Church  be- 
fore this  Grand  Lodge,  and  he  was  respectfully  requested 
to  furnish  a  Copy  thereof  for  publication.* 

*  Copy  ia  Grand  Lodge  Library. 

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On  Motion  made  and  Seconded, 

Resolved  Also,  That  the  Thanks  of  the  R.  W.  Grand 
Lodge  be  presented  to  "  The  Trustees  of  S^  John's  Lutheran 
Church"  for  the  use  of  their  Church  obligingly  granted  on 
the  Occasion  of  the  Masonic  Procession,  and  the  delivery  of 
the  Masonic  Oration  before  this  Grand  Lodge  on  this  Day, 

Grand  Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  4  o'clock,  p.  m., 
and  the  Brethern  repaired  to  the  various  places  of 
refreshment  previously  arranged. 


Masonic  Banquet. 

The  Grand  Lodge  with  the  Grand  Officers  of  New  Jersey 
and  Maryland,  a  Number  of  other  respectable  Visitors  and 
Brethren,  about  200  in  Number,  sat  down  at  5  o'clock  in  the 
Afternoon  of  S'.  John's  Day,  24"'  June,  1811,  to  a  Banquet 
provided  in  the  New  Hall,  when  the  following  Toasts  were 
drank  with  the  accustomed  Honours,  Viz : 

1.  The  Day. — The  Proudest  in  the  Annals  of  our  Lodge. — 

May  it  prove  the  most  propitious  on  the   Tablets  of 
Charity. 

2.  Our    New    Hall. — While    social    Harmony    reigns    in    its 

Courts,  its  secret  recesses  shall  prove  a  Sanctuary  for 
Brothers,  and  a  "  a  Lodge  for  the  Virtues. ' ' 

3.  The  Memory  of  Brother  General  George  Washington. — May 

the  gratitude  of  Masons  display  itself  in  Deeds,  and 
rouse  the  slumbering  sensibility  of  the  Nation. 

4.  The  Grand  Lodges  of  the  United  States. — Wisdom  to  their 

deliberations.   Strength  to   their  Measures,   and  Moral 
Beauty  to  their  Conduct. 

5.  Our  Country. — Devotion  to  its  Interests :  One  of  the  proud- 

est traits  in  the  Masonic  Character. 
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JLl)c  mew  fiOasontc  Iball,  Chestnut  Street 

6.  Our  Fair  Sisters. — Their  Happiness  the  principal  object 

of  our  Institution. — In  excluding  Beauty  from  the  Tem- 
ple of  Wisdom  we  distrust  ourselves  rather  than  them. 

7.  The  Academy  of  Fine  Arts  and  the  Society  of  Artists. — 

They  have  sown  "good  Seed  in  good  Ground:"  May 
they  be  remunerated  by  an  abundant  Harvest. 

8.  The  Clergy  of  the  United  States. — Guardians  of  the  First 

great  Light  of  Masonry,  they  display  its  influence  by 
lives  spent  in  Acts  of  Piety  and  Devotion. 

9.  The  Mystic  Signal. — The  Last  Appeal;  never  be  it  given 

without  effect! 

At  Half  past  8  o'clock  in  the  Evening  the  Company  sepa- 
rated in  the  utmost  Harmony  and  good  Order. 

The  Solemn  and  impressive  solemnities  of  the  Day  were  not 
interrupted  by  any  unpleasant  occurrences.  As  large  a  con- 
course of  spectators  as  were  ever  Assembled  on  a  public  Occa- 
sion, conducted  themselves  with  the  greatest  propriety  and  De- 
corum, and  the  display  made  by  the  Craft  in  the  Procession, 
(about  750  in  Number,)  far  excelled  in  Beauty  and  Order 
any  former  exhibition  of  a  similar  kind. 

July  20,  iSii.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present  13 
members  &  8  visitors     Br  J.  Busmas,  Passed. 

"Br  Joshua  Fletcher,  formerly  a  member  of  this 
Lodge  presented  the  Lodge  with  a  Bible,  on  which  it 
was  unanimously  Eesolved  that  the  thanks  of  the 
Lodge  be  presented  to  him." 

"A  letter  directed  to  Br  James  Cutbush  W.  M. 
from  the  Rev^  Br  George  Richards  inviting  the  mem- 
bers of  Lodge  No  2  to  attend  a  'funeral  Sermon'  to 
be  preached  on  Sunday  21  Inst,  at  the  Universalist 

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1730— ifreemaeonr^  tn  pcnnsiPlvanta  — 1907 

Church  in  the  fore-noon,  in  memory  of  Br  John 
Phillips  was  read  and  the  members  agreed  to  attend." 

August  12,  i<91J.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  29 
members  &  21  visitors     Br  Wm  Bevens,  Iniatiated 

A  Letter  of  which  the  following  is  a  Copy  was  rec  'd 
from  Brother  Charles  J.  Brooke,  viz*. 

Worshipfuij  Master,  Wardens  &  Brethren  of  Lodge  N°.  2, 
Brethren: 
The  difference  formerly  existing  between  W™.  Meguire  & 
myself  having  been  amicably  &  satisfactorily  settled,  I  take 
the  Liberty  of  soliciting  your  W.  Lodge  to  stop  all  further 
proceedings  in  said  difference  against  all  parties  whatsoever 
that  may  have  been  considered  as  concerned  by  your  W. 
Lodge. 

With  sentiments  of  respect  &  esteem 

I  am,  Brethren,  yours  in  Unity 

signed     Charles  J.  Brooke 
Aug.  1,  1811 

P.  S. — As  there  is  an  impression  on  some  of  the  minds  of 
the  Brethren  that  there  was  improper  persuasion  used,  by  my 
recommenders,  to  induce  me  to  become  a  Mason,  I  beg  leave 
to  state  that  it  was  not  the  case,  and  that  it  was  of  "my 
own  free  will  and  accord"  that  I  was  initiated. 

(signed)     C.  J.  B. 

On  motion  made  &  seconded,  Resolved  that  the 
above  letter  from  B'".  Charles  J.  Brooke  be  considered 
a  sufficient  cause  why  the  Brethren  concerned  be  not 
expelled. 

It  having  been  stated  that  the  widow  of  our  late 

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Worshipful  Master  B""  Norman  Burroughs  was  in  dis- 
tressed circumstances,  it  was  resolved  that  a  Com- 
mittee be  appointed  to  enquire  into  her  situation  & 
fifty  Dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  her  relief  if 
said  committee  thought  necessary.  Whereupon  B". 
Cluly,  Shelmardine  &  Hamilton  were  appointed. 

Br  Bazile  Perroteau,  Passed  to  the  Chair 

August  15,  :Z5ii.— Special  Lodge.  Present  6  mem- 
bers. 

Br  Simon  Maley,  Entered  Passed  Eaised  by  Dis- 
pensation 

August  28,  iSli.— Extra  Meeting.  Present  8 
members  &  4  visitors 

Br  Wm  Bevens,  Passed  &  Raised. 

September  9,  iSii.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  32 
members  &  62  visitors 


B^ 


Visitors- 

- 

Fletcher      late  N°. 

2            B' 

"  Heanny                N°. 

91 

W.  McColin 

127 

W™.  Bache 

127 

D.   Simpson 

127 

Littleboy 

3 

J.  L.  Baker 

91 

W.  J.  Crean 

3 

Sykes 

72 

Mayney 

125 

H.  Baker,  St. 

Mary's,  Scot^^. 

Cha^  J.  Tniehole 

3 

Keiseh 

125 

Wilford 

91 

Carter 

127 

Gamble 

91 

Clay 

51    ■ 

Manning 

91 

Stinger 

72 

Crocket 

52 

A.  C.  Ireland 

131 

J.  P.  Roberts 

115 

J.  Warner 

91 

Wager 

51 

Dunham 

22  N.  J. 

W.  J.  Baker 

121 

J.  A.  Rohn 

72 

J.  MeAlpin 

51 

Elisha  Smith 

131 

S.  P.  Watkins 

91 

J.  C.  Richardson 

126 

Frazer 

51 

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B"-.  Saltenstal 

91 

B"-  W.   Bozorth 

71 

Holloway 

3 

A.  Bozorth 

71 

Howard 

73 

Randal 

131 

Lorain 

72 

O'NeiU 

6  N.Y. 

Helmbold 

127 

Evans 

Cl 

Wythe 

3 

Deburr 

(( 

J.  Shaw 

131 

W.  A.  Shaw 

91 

''Visitation  of  Grand  Officers.  The  R.  W.  G.  M. 
James  Milnor,  accompanied  by  the  R.  W.  Peter  Le 
Barbier  Duplesses,  Deputy  G.  M.  The  R.  W.  Richard 
Tybout,  S.  G.  W.  The  R.  W.  Joseph  Purden, 
J.  G.  W.  The  R.  W.  George  A.  Baker,  G.  Secty. 
The  R.  W.  Samuel  F.  Bradford,  G.  Treas^  The 
R.  W.  Thomas  Hennesy,  deputy  G.  Secty,  the  R.  W. 
&  Rev^  George  Richards,  G.  C.  Thomas  Elliott, 
S.  D.  &  Enticken,  G.  P. 

The  Right  Worshipfull  Grand  Master,  ordered  that 
the  R.  W.  Dep''.  Grand  Secretary's  report  should  be 
on  the  minutes  of  this  Lodge,  he  then  delivered  an 
elegant  &  appropriate  address  to  the  Brethren,  after 
which  the  Worshipfull  Master  on  behalf  of  the  Lodge 
returned  thanks  to  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  &  his 
officers  for  the  honour  conferred  on  the  Lodge  by  this 
annual  visitation  &  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master's  elegant 
address,  the  officers  of  the  Lodge  resumed  their 
stations.  The  Rev"^.  B""  Richards  delivered  a  Lecture 
on  the  first  degree  of  Masonry. 

The  sum  of  5  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity. 

Saturday,  September  21,  iSii.— Adjourned  Meet- 
ing.    Present  5  members  &  3  visitors 

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^be  mcvv  fiDasonic  iball,  Chestnut  Street 

Br.  Binder,  Entered,  &  Br  Busman,  Raised 

October  3,  i<Si J.— Special  Meeting.  Present  7  mem- 
bers 

In  consequence  of  Lodge  N°.  19  being  waiting  for 
the  room  the  passing  &  raising  were  dispensed  with 
for  the  present 

October  14,  iSii.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  32 
members  &  15  visitors 

Brothers  Samuel  Paxton,  Isaac  Pearson,  Iniatiated 

November  11,  i<Sii.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  40 
members  k  6  visitors.  Br  Wm  Binder,  Passed.  An- 
thony Lafitte,  Iniatiated  The  sum  of  25  Dollars  was 
granted  for  Charity. 

November  25,  iSii.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present 
24  members. 

The  sum  of  5  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity 
Brothers,  Binder,  Pearson,  Lafitte,  Passed  Brothers 
Binder,  Paxson,  Pearson  Raised 

December  9,  iSiJ.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  43 
members  &  18  visitors 

Br  Lafitte,  Raised  The  sum  of  20  Dollars  was 
granted  for  Charity. 

December  18,  i5:Zi.— Extra  Meeting.  Present  10 
members  &  1  visitor 

December  23,  iSJ:^.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present 
18  members  &  4  visitors 

A  Circular  petition  was  rec^.  and  read  from  Eliza- 
beth Hartman,  wife  of  Brother  Derrick  Hartman,   a 

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member  of  this  Lodge  stating  that  she  was  reduced 
to  extreme  distress  in  consequence  of  her  husband 
being  captured  on  a  voyage  hence  to  Cadiz  &  im- 
prisoned in  Seville  &  that  she  has  no  means  to  support 
herself  and  child  except  hiring  herself  out  &c  where- 
upon a  Committee  consisting  of  Brothers  Cluly,  Doug- 
lass &  Burden  were  appointed  &  ten  Dollars  granted 
for  her  relief. 

The  Committee  appointed  12  Aug\  last  to  relieve 
M''^  Burroughs  reported  verbally  that  they  found  her 
deserving  and  in  distress  &  paid  her  the  $50  granted. 

A  Bill  was  presented  for  Silver  lace  &  ribbon  am*^. 
to  $2.80  which  was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

Brother  Howard's  bill  for  hangings  &'  presented 
12  Aug',  last  amounting  to  $107.13  was  ordered  to 
be  paid. 

A  Circular  petition  was  read  from  Elizabeth  Woods, 

relict  of  B^ Wood  formerly  a  member  of  Lodge 

N°.  9  praying  relief  whereupon  a  Committee  consist- 
ing of  Brothers  Kuhn,  Fearon  &  Ruff  were  appointed 
and  five  Dollars  granted  her  if  found  worthy. 

A  Circular  i^etition  was  read  from  Elizabeth  Hubly 
praying  relief  whereupon  Brothers  Shelmerdine,  Cluly 
and  Joseph  Douglass  were  appointed  a  Committee 
&  Ten  Dollars  granted  her  if  found  worthy 

A  Bill  was  presented  for  printing  Two  hundred 
Copies  of  our  By-laws  amounting  to  $16.50  which  was 
ordered  to  be  paid. 

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A  Bill  was  presented  by  Brother  Eobert  Allen  for 
two  Dozen  Skins  for  Aprons  &  amounting  to  $28 
which  was  ordered  to  be  paid. 

A  Bill  was  presented  from  David  Barnum  for  Sup- 
per, &^  on  the  stated  meeting  on  the  annual  Grand 
Visitation  amounting  to  $120.93  which  was  ordered 
to  be  paid. 

A  Bill  was  presented  for  printing  &  serving  notices 
for  the  funeral  of  our  deceased  Brother  Phillip  Lese 
amounting  to  $4  which  was  ordered  to  be  paid 

A  Bill  was  presented  from  W°.  Schneider  for  re- 
freshments &""  amounting  to  $32.53  which  was  ordered 
to  be  paid. 

This  being  Election  night  the  Lodge  was  called  off 
from  Labour  to  Refreshment  for  the  space  of  fifteen 
minutes  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  Tickets,  at  the 
expiration  of  which  time  the  Lodge  was  called  on  to 
Labour,  Brothers  Winner  &  Bevens  were  appointed 
tellers.  The  Lodge  then  proceeded  to  the  Election. 
Upon  counting  the  votes  it  appeared  that  the  follow- 
ing Brethren  were  severally  Elected  to  fill  the  respec- 
tive offices  annexed  to  their  names,  viz 

Brother  George   A.   Baker  Jr.   W.   M. 
Edward  W.  Carr  S.  W 
Edward  Shelmerdine  J.  W. 
David  Neildson,  Sec^. 
Joseph  Burden,  Treasurer 

An    Entered    Apprentices    Lodge    was    opened    in 

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Ancient  form  at  three  o'clock  P.  M.  and  a  dispensa- 
tion was  read  from  P.  L.  Barbier  Duplessis  R.  W.  D. 
Grand  Master  in  &  for  the  Commonwealth  of  Penn- 
sylvania &  Masonick  jurisdiction  therennto  belonging 
directed  to  the  W.  M.  of  Lodge  No  2  authorizing  & 
empowering  him  to  enter,  pass  &  raise  Jacob  Harmon 
&  Timothy  Dawes  in  said  Lodge  to  the  Sublime  De- 
gree of  Master  Masons  if  the  same  should  meet  the 
approbation  of  the  Lodge,  which  being  agreed  to. 

A  petition  was  received  from  a  M'^^  Mason  relict  of 
Mason  foimerly  a  member  of  this  Lodge  pray- 
ing relief,  whereupon  a  Committee  consisting  of 
Brethern  Carr,  Shelmerdine  &  Bevens  were  appointed 
and  Thirty  Dollars  granted  her  if  found  in  distress 
&  deserving 

The  sum  of  45  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity 
Installed,  George  A.  Baker  Jr.  W.  M.  Br  E.  W. 
Carr,  S.  W.  Edward  Shelmerdine,  J.  W.  David 
Neilson,  Secty  Br  George  A.  Baker  Jr.  the  W.  M. 
Installed  this  meeting  made  the  following  appoint- 
ments viz  Br  Joseph  Douglass,  S.  D.  Kuhn  & 
Knight,  M.  C.  Allen  «&  Douglass,  Stewards  Wm 
Schneider,  Tyler  The  S.  W.  appointed  Br  Ruff, 
J.  D. 

January  13,  iSi^.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  29 
members  &  23  visitors 

*'A  committee  was  appointed  to  wait  on  delinquent 
members,"  to  know  whether  they  will  pay  up  their 

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dues,  and  be  further  advanced  in  Masonry  or  be  ex- 
pelled this  Lodge." 

The  sum  of  30  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity 
Committee  appointed  to  collect  the  outstanding  dues 
of  the  Lodge. 

A  circular  address  from  Union  Lodge  N°.  121  was 
read  requesting  the  Lodge  to  appoint  a  committee  to 
confer  with  the  committees  of  the  other  Lodges  on 
the  propriety  of  devising  some  more  eligible  plan 
than  that  now  in  use  for  dispensing  charity  where- 
upon Brothers  Cuttres  &  O'brien  were  apxjointed  com- 
mittee for  that  purpose. 

Dues  collected  from  visitors  $5.50  reading  of  the 
minutes  dispensed  with. 
Lodge  closed  at  8.45  p.  m. 

February  10,  i<Si5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  33 
members  &  26  visitors 

Br  Joseph  Burden,  Installed  Treas^  Br  Moss 
Olmsted,  Elected  member.  Br  Wm  Simon  Examined 
&  Raised  The  sum  of  30  Dollars  was  granted  for 
Charity  on  Petitions  of  Rebekah  Ferguson,  Jane 
Wand,  &  Elsebeth  Hartman 

Thomas  T.  Stiles  bill  for  printing  notices  for 
Brother  Andrew's  funeral  amounting  to  $1.50  was 
ordered  to  be  paid. 

Brother  Burden  ha^dng  granted  ten  dollars  to 
brother  Thomas  Tatem,  formerly  a  member  of  this 
Lodge,  on  motion  made  seconded  resolved  the  same 
be  allowed. 

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The  charge  of  brother  Douglass  against  brother 
Meguire  was  then  taken  up  &  the  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee appointed  thereon  was  read  &  adopted. 

February  24,  i<Si5.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
8  members  2  visitors 

^'Br  Wilkinson  honored  the  Lodge  with  a  lecture 
on  part  of  the  first  degree  in  Masonry." 

''No  other  business  occuring  the  Lodge  closed  in 
harmony  at  7.30  Oclock  to  meet  on  the  second  Monday 
in  March." 

March  9,  i<9J5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  29  mem- 
bers &  40  visitors 

Brothers  Jacob  Harman  &  Timothy  Daws,  Elected 
Br  Edwai'd  Warner's  Resignation  accepted.  The 
sum  of  30  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity 

Brother  John  Abel's  petition  to  be  exempted  from 
the  payment  of  dues  except  when  present.     Granted. 

The  committee  to  collect  outstanding  dues  were 
continued. 

On  motion  &  seconded  resolved  that  Brothers  Stein- 
man,  Paxson  &  Wintherval  be  a  committee  to  inquire 
into  the  circumstances  of  brother  James  Winner's 
family  &  that  ten  dollars  be  placed  in  their  hands  to 
relieve  them  if  found  in  distress 

A  petition  was  read  from  a  certain  Wilhelmina 
Drewis  praying  relief  whereupon  Brothers  Burden, 
Obrien  _&  Cutbush  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
relieve  her  with  ten  dollars  if  found  in  distress. 

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Dues  collected  from  members  $10.  Dollars  Visitors 
$19  Dollars. 

March  12,  i8i5.— Special  Meeting.  5  O'clock  P.  M. 
Present  8  members. 

James  Fearon  &  A.  Knight,  passed  to  the  Chair  by- 
dispensation.     Lodge  closed  at  6  Oclock  p.  m. 

March  27,  JSi^.— Special  meeting.  Present  11 
members. 

A  Communication  was  read  from  Walter  Ker  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  appointed  by  the  Grand  Lodge 
on  the  appeal  of  Brother  W"".  Meguire  from  the  decis- 
ion of  this  Lodge  in  the  case  of  Douglass  vs.  Meguire 

On  motion  &  seconded  Resolved  that  the  committee 
appointed  thereon  &  the  officers  of  the  Lodge  be  re- 
quested to  meet  the  Grand  Lodge  committee  to-mor- 
row at  3  o  'clock  P.  M.  &  that  the  committee  be  notified 
thereof  by  the  Secretary. 

Lodge  closed  at  3.45  p.  m. 

A'pril  13,  i<Si5.— Special  Meeting.  Present  5  mem- 
bers &  1  visitor 

Lodge  opened  at  5.30  Oclock. 

Entered  Apprentice  Lodge  opened  in  ancient  form 
at  -|-  past  5  o'clock 

A  dispensation  was  read  from  Peter  Le  Barbier 
Duplessies  E.  W.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania  &  Masonic  Jurisdiction  thereunto  be- 
longing. Authorizing  &  empowering  the  Lodge  to 
enter,  pass  &  raise  James  Boyd  to  the  sublime  degree 
of  a  Master  Mason. 

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Closed  at  15  minutes  before  7  to  meet  at  7  Oclock 
in  the  evening. 

April  13,  i<Si^.- Stated  Meeting.  7.15  P.  M.  Pres- 
ent 26  members  &  27  visitors 

The  committee  appointed  to  enquire  into  the  circum- 
stances of  Brother  Winner's  family  reported  that 
finding  them  in  distress  they  had  relieved  them  with 
the  sum  of  ten  dollars  placed  in  their  hands  for  that 
purpose. 

The  committee  appointed  to  enquire  into  the  circum- 
stances of  M'^^  Quin  were  continued. 

The  committee  appointed  to  relieve  W^.  Drewis 
were  continued 

A  letter  was  received  from  Brother  John  G.  Bring- 
hurst  late  a  member  requesting  a  certificate  of  his 
standing  in  the  Lodge,  which  was  laid  over  till  next 
stated  meeting. 

A  petition  was  received  from  brother  Joseph  M. 
Turner  praying  leave  to  withdraw  &  have  a  certificate 
granted  him  which  was  laid  over  till  next  meeting. 

James  McKeage,  Entered.      Calvin  Gould,  Elected 

April  27,  iSl^.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present  12 
members  &  20  visitors 

Brothers  McKeage  &  Isaac  Patterson,  Crafted 

Brothers  Carr  &  Shelmerdine  were  appointed 
guardians  for  brother  Patterson.  Brother  Patterson 
returned  to  the  Lodge  gave  thanks  and  received  the 
benefit  of  a  lecture  on  the  second  degree. 

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Jibe  mew  ma0onic  IbaU,  Cbestnut  Street 

May  11,  iSi^.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  29  mem- 
bers &  20  visitors 

James  Thomas,  Entered.  Grand  Lodge  dues, 
$250.75  cts.  Paid  Br  James  McKeage,  Raised. 
The  sum  of  10  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity. 

June  8,  i(Si^.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  27  mem- 
bers &  8  visitors 

Communication  were  received  from  the  R.  W.  Gr.  L. 
of  Pennsylvania  &  on  Motion  made  &  seconded.  Re- 
solved, that  they  be  inserted  on  the  Minutes,  they  are 
as  follows,  viz. 

Grand  Lodge  of  Most  Ancient  &  Honorable  Fra- 
ternity of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania &  Masonic  Jurisdiction,  There  unto  belonging 
according  to  the  old  institution. 

At  a  Grand  Quarterly  Communication  held  at  their 
New  Hall  in  the  City  of  Phila.  on  Monday  the  second 
day  of  December,  A.  L.  5811  in  ample  form. 

The  Grand  Lodge  proceeded  to  the  Election  of 
officers  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  Br  James  Milnor, 
Esq.  counsellor  a  law,  &  a  member  of  the  congress 
of  the  United  States,  from  the  state  of  Pa,  was  duly 
reelected  R.  W.  G.  M. 

Br  Peter  Barbier  Duplessis,  Esq.  sworn  interpreter 
of  foreign  languages,  conveyancer  &c  &c  was  duly 
re-elected,  R.  W.  Deputy  G.  M. 

Br  Richard  Tybout,  hat  manufacturer,  was  duly 
re-elected,  R.  W.  S.  G.  W. 

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Br  Joseph  Burden,  fancy  chair  manufacturer  was 
duly  re-elected,  E.  W.  J.  G.  W. 

Br  George  A.  Baker,  conveyancer,  was  duly  re- 
elected, E.  W.  G.  Secty 

Br  Samuel  F.  Bradford,  printer  &  bookseller,  was 
duly  re-elected  E.  W.  G.  Treas^ 

In  conformity  with  the  regulations  of  the  R.  W,  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pa.  I  do  myself  the  honour  of  here-with  communi- 
cating to  you  the  names  of  the  R.  W.  Grand  &  other  officers 
of  the  said  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge  for  the  year  of  Masonry, 
5812,  as  also  the  Expulsions,  Rejections,  &c  &c,  communicated 
during  the  last  year. 

I  remain,  with  sentiments  of  respect, 

Worshipful  Sir  and  Brother 

Yours  fraternally 
(Signed)     George  A.  Baker 

Grand  Secretary 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania. 

In  adjourned  Grand  Quarterly  Communication, 
Philadelphia,  Monday  16th  September,  A.  D.  1811, 
A.  L.  5811. 

The  committee  appointed  to  report  a  plan  of  gov- 
ernment for  such  parts  of  the  New  Hall,  as  are  re- 
served for  Masonic  purposes,  made  report,  which  was 
read;  and 

On  motion  made  and  seconded,  the  same  was  again 
read  by  paragraphs,  and  with  some  amendments 
adopted  as  follows;  to  wit, 

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To  the  R.  W.  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pa. 

The  committee  appointed  to  take  into  consideration  a  plan 
of  government  for  such  parts  of  the  New  Hall  as  are 
reserved  for  Masonic  purposes; 

Beg  leave  to  report, 

That  they  have  considered  the  subject  of  their  appointment 
with  that  attention  it  so  justly  deserves;  That  they  are  of 
opinion  that  it  is  of  the  highest  importance  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  &  the  brethren  generally,  that  the  best  care  possible 
should  be  taken  of  their  New  Hall  especially  of  those  parts 
reserved  for  Masonic  purposes,  and  of  the  valuable  and 
beautiful  jewels,  furniture,  &c,  there-in  contained; 

Your  committee  beg  leave  to  submit  the  following  resolu- 
tions which  they  conceive  will  answer  the  end  of  their  ap- 
pointments ; 

Resolved,  That  a  Grand  Tyler  be  appointed  to  have  the 
charge  of  all  the  parts  of  the  New  Hall  reserved  for  Masonic 
purposes — to  keep  the  whole  clean  &  in  the  best  order — to 
have  the  charge  of  all  the  jewels,  furniture,  &c.  belonging 
to  the  Grand  Lodge — to  cleanse  &  light  every  Lodge  Day,  all 
the  lamps  and  candles,  &  make  fire,  when  necessary,  in  all 
the  stoves — and  that  he  shall  attend  to  the  putting  out  of  the 
lights,  &  fires,  &  the  building  locked  up  on  the  several  stated 
meetings  of  the  subordinate  Lodges. 

Resolved,  That  the  said  Grand  Tyler  shall  receive  the  sum 
of  three  hundred  dollars  annually,  in  four  equal  quarterly 
payments,  as  a  compensation  for  the  above  services,  inde- 
pendent of  the  fees  he  now  receives  for  his  other  duties; 
that  he  shall  be  answerable  for  every  thing  committed  to  his 
care  that  shall  happen  to  be  damaged,  broken  or  lost. 

Resolved,  That  the  Tylers  employed  by  the  different  Lodges, 
shall  be  accountable  to  the  said  Grand  Tyler  for  every  thing 

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damaged,  broken  or  lost,  during  the  time  the  rooms  shall 
have  been  under  their  care,  &  that  every  Lodge,  employing 
such  Tyler  shall  be  charged  with  the  amount  of  such  damage. 

Resolved,  That  it  be  recommended  to  all  the  Lodges  to  unite 
as  far  as  may  be  deemed  expedient,  to  employ  the  same  Tyler 
or  tylers. 

Resolved,  That  wax  or  Spermaceti  candles  &  the  best  winter 
strained  oil  only,  shall  be  used  in  the  lodge  rooms,  and  that 
the  expense  thereof  shall  be  apportioned  amongst  all  the 
Lodges  &  Chapters. 

Resolved,  That  as  soon  as  the  additional  Lodge  room  is 
completed,  no  Lodge  shall  be  allowed  to  meet  in  the  Grand 
Lodge  room,  but  on  the  day  appropriated  for  their  stated 
meetings,  and  that  any  Lodge  that  may  meet  in  the  said 
additional  room  on  particular  business,  or  by  adjournment, 
on  any  day  not  appropriated  for  their  use,  shall  close  their 
labours  at  least  half  an  hour  before  the  time  appointed  for 
the  meeting  of  the  Lodge,  who  shall  be  entitled  to  meet  there 
on  such  day. 

Resolved,  That  a  committee,  whose  duty  shall  be  to  see  all 
the  afore  going  ad  all  other  rules  &  regulations  now  in  force 
concerning  the  Grand  Tyler,  carried  into  complete  execution; 
that  the  said  committee  shall  purchase  the  necessary  firewood, 
candles,  oil,  &c  examine  &  pass  the  Grand  Tyler's  bills,  and 
sign  them  that  the  R.  W.  G.  M.  may  draw  his  order  on  the 
Grand  Treasurer  for  the  same,  &  shall  generally  do,  con- 
cerning the  government  of  those  parts  of  the  Hall  reserved 
for  Masonic  purposes  all  that  circumstances  may  render 
necessary. 

Resolved,  That  in  case  of  the  disease,  resignation,  refusal, 
neglect,  or  misbehavior  of  the  Grand  Tyler,  the  R.  W.  G.  M. 

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be  requested  to  appoint  another  upon'  the  recommendation 
of  the  Hall  Committee  afore-said. 

The  R.  W.  G.  M.  was  pleased  to  appoint  Brothers  Samuel 
Lippincott,  T.  Thomas  Entriken,  &  Frederick  Erringer,  to  be 
the  Hall  Committee : 

Extract  from  the  minutes 

(Signed)     George  A.  Baker 

Grand  Secretary 

The  Hall  Committee  have  ascertaind  the  expense 
of  lighting  the  rooms,  and  fixed  the  following  rates, 
viz. 

Every  Lodge  to  pay  for  lighting  the  large  room,  one 
dollar  &  twenty  five  cents,  for  every  evening  of  meet- 
ing, and  one  dollar  additional  if  the  side  lamps  are 
lighted.  Every  Lodge,  Chapter  and  Encampment 
to  pay  one  dollar  and  twenty  five  cents  for  every 
evening  of  meeting  in  the  small  room. 

In  Adjourned  Grand  Quarterly  Communication, 
Phila,  Monday  6  April,  A.  D.  1812.  A.  L.  5812. 

On  motion  made  &  seconded, 

Resolved,  That  the  Hall  committee  be  authorized  to  furnish 
the  fights  for  the  different  Lodges  at  their  refreshment  table, 
for  the  additional  sum  of  twenty  five  cents  per  Lodge  night 
Extract  from  the  minutes 

(Signed)     George  A.  Baker 

Grand  Secretary 

Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania 
Grand  Quarterly   Communication  Phila.      Monday 
2nd  September,  A.  D.  1811,  A.  L.  5811. 

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The  Committee  on  Bye-Laws  made  Report  on  the 
Bye-Laws  of  Lodge  No  2  held  at  Phila.  which  was 
read  &  is  as  follows,  to  wit. 

To  the  B.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Penna 

The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Bye-Laws  of 
Lodge  No,  2, 

Respectfully  beg  leave  to  Report, 

That  they  have  carefully  examined  the  same  &  find  them 
strictly  conformable  to  the  Constitution  of  our  ancient  Insti- 
tution and  recommend  them  for  the  approbation  of  the  R.  W. 
Grand  Lodge. 
Sept  2,  1811. 

(Signed)     Frederick  Wolbert 
Robert  Poalk. 
Robert  Pullen. 

Which  Report  was  Adopted. 

I 
Extract  from  the  minutes 

(Signed)     George  A.  Baker 

Grand  Secretary. 

On  motion  made  &  seconded, 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  be  required  to  notify 
Br  John  Phillips,  that  unless  he  come  forward  &  pay 
his  dues  within  three  months  from  this  date  he  shall 
be  expelled  this  Lodge. 

The  committee  appointed  on  Br  Bringhurst  were 
continued. 

Br  Cluley's  resignation  was  accepted. 

This  being  the  night  for  the  Election  of  Officers, 
for  the  next  six  months,  The  dues  were  collected  & 

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the  Lodge  called  off  from  labour  to  refreshment  for 
the  space  of  twenty  minutes  for  the  purpose  of  pre- 
paring tickets,  at  the  expiration  of  the  time  the  Lodge 
was  called  on  to  labour  &  Brothers  Allen  &  Paxson 
were  appointed  tellers,  The  Lodge  then  proceeded  to 
the  election  &  upon  counting  the  votes,  the  following 
brethren  were  declared  duly  elected  to,  Viz  Br.  George 
A.  Baker  Jr.  W.  M.  Edward  W.  Carr,  S.  W.  Ed- 
ward Shelmerdine,  J.  W.  David  Nielsen,  Secty 
Joseph  Burden,  Treas'" 

June  22,  i<Si5.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present  9 
members  This  being  the  night  for  the  installation  of 
the  Officers  elect.  The  entered  apprentice  Lodge  closed 
&  a  master  mason's  Lodge  opened,  those  brethren 
who  were  not  Past  Masters  having  withdrawn, 
Br  George  A.  Baker  Jr.  was  installed  W.  M.  for  the 
next  six  months,  commencing  on  St  John's  day  next, 
the  brethren  having  returned  the  following  brethren 
were  installed  to  their  respective  offices,  viz,  Br  Ed- 
ward W.  Carr,  S.  W.  Edward  Shelmerdine,  J.  W. 
David  Nielsen,  Secty.  The  W.  M.  was  pleased  to 
appoint  Br  Joseph  Douglass,  S.  D.  Brothers  George 
K.  Kuhn  &  Alexander  Knight,  M.  C. 

Br  Edward  W.  Carr,  was  pleased  to  appoint  Br. 
Wm  Euff,  J.  D.  Br.  Wm.  Schneider,  Tyler  «& 
Steward. 

July  13,  :Z8i5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  27  mem- 
bers &  4  visitors      Treasurer  installed,   Br.   Joseph 

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Burden.     Two  applications  were  received  this  evening. 

August  10,  i<Si5.— Stated  Meeting.  7.40  P.  M. 
Present  26  members  &  7  visitors 

The  committee  appointed  to  relieve  M"^.  Jourdon 
reported  that  finding  her  in  distress  they  had  relieved 
her  with  the  smn  of  Ten  Dollars 

Brother  James  Thomas  was  examined  in  open 
Lodge  &  found  worthy  to  be  passed  to  the  degree  of 
a  Fellow  Craft  Mason. 

August  24,  iSi^.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present  17 
members  &  4  visitors 

Br  James  T.  Webster,  Entered 

''Br  Patterson  expressed  a  desire  to  be  further 
advanced  in  masonry  but  not  being  able  to  go  through 
his  examination  it  was  dispensed  with. 

Br.  James  Thomas,  Crafted. 

August  29,  iSi^.— Special  Meeting.  6.30  P.  M. 
Present  6  members 

A  dispensation  was  read  from  P.  Le  Barbier 
Duplessies  R.  W.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  G.  Lodge  of  Penn- 
sylvania &  Masonic  Jurisdiction  thereunto  belonging 
authorizing  &  Empowering  the  Lodge  to  enter,  pass 
&  Raise  to  the  Sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason 
Abraham  Matlack. 

September  7,  i<9i5.— Special  Meeting.  Present  5 
members  &  2  visitors 

The  W.  M.  stated  that  the  lodge  had  been  convened 
at  the  request  of  Brother  Webster  for  the  purpose 

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Ebe  IRcw  fiDaeonic  Iball,  Cbeetnut  Street 


of  Passing  &  Eaising  him  as  he  was  about  to  leave 
the  State  &  could  not  wait  the  delays  required  by  our 
bye  laws. 

September  8,  :Z<9i-2.— Special  Meeting.  3.30  P.  M. 
Present  3  members 

A  dispensation  was  read  from  James  Milnor  E.  W. 
G.  M.  of  the  G.  L.  of  Pennsylvania  authorizing  the 
Lodge  to  pass  to  the  Chair  brother  Moss  Olmstead 

Brother  Olmstead  being  in  waiting  was  introduced 
&  agreeably  to  ancient  form  passed  to  the  Chair  & 
Eeceived  the  salutation  of  the  brethren. 

Brother  Olmstead  applied  to  be  recommended  to 
the  H.  E.  A.  C.  which  was  on  motion  granted  &  the 
Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  4  o'clock,  P.  M. 

September  14,  iSJ^.— Stated  Meeting.  7  P.  M. 
Present  20  members  &  7  visitors 

Brothers  Winners  &  BeVens,  Eesigned.  Br  James 
Thomas,  Eaised.  Two  applications  received  this 
evening. 

"A  Petition  was  received  from  a  certain  "Wm  Far- 
ren  (a  modern)  praying  to  be  initiated  into  the 
Mysteries  of  Freemasonry,  whereupon  Brothers 
Burden,  Allen  &  John  Douglass  were  appointed  a 
Committee  to  enquire  into  his  Character. 

October  12,  i<S15.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  31 
members  &  8  visitors 

Br  Benjamin  Holbrook,  Entered  Aaron  Mower  & 
Wm  Farren,  Entered  Br  Kuhn's  resigation  was 
accepted. 

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October  17,  i<Si^.— Special  Meeting.  4.30  P.  M. 
Present  6  members  &  8  visitors 

Br  Holbrook,  Passed 

Fellow  Crafts  lodge  closed  &  a  master  masons  lodge 
opened  Brother  Holbrook  being  in  waiting  was  intro- 
duced and  raised  to  the  Sublime  degree  of  a  Master 
Mason  &  withdrew,  returned  to  the  Lodge  gave  thanks 
&  received  the  benefit  of  a  Lecture. 

October  26,  iSi^.— Adjourned  Meeting.  6.30  P.  M. 
Present  8  members  &  3  ^dsitors 

Br  John  Towers,  Entered.  Br  Aaron  Mower, 
Passed     Br  Wm  Farren,  Passed  &  Raised 

November  9,  i6i5.— Stated  Meeting.  7  P.  M. 
Present  27  members  &  10  visitors 

Br  John  Towers,  Passed     Br  Aaron  Mower,  Raised 

A  petition  was  received  from  brother  Samuel  Stone- 
man  praying  relief  whereupon  brothers  Burden, 
Shelmerdine  &  Ruff  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
relieve  him  with  Ten  dollars  if  found  in  distress. 

Brothers  Knight  Steinman  &  Wintheval  were  ap- 
pointed to  enquire  into  the  circumstances  of  Sarah 
Fritz  &  ten  dollars  were  placed  in  their  hands  for  her 
relief  if  found  in  distress. 

A  petition  was  read  from  Lydia  Franklin  praying 
relief  whereupon  brothers  Knight,  Steinman  &  O'Con- 
nor were  appointed  a  Committee  to  relieve  her  if 
found  in  distress. 

November  23,  i8i5.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present 
13  members  &  1  visitor 

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Jibe  1Rew  fiDaeonic  Iball,  Cbestnut  Street 


A  Fellow  Crafts  Lodge  opened  Brother  Towers  not 
being  able  to  go  through  an  examination  it  was  dis- 
pensed with.  Fellow  Crafts  Lodge  closed  &  Master 
Masons  Lodge  opened  &  brother  Towers  was  intro- 
duced &  agreeably  to  ancient  form  raised  to  the 
Sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason  gave  thanks  & 
received  the  benefit  of  a  Lecture  &  paid  15  dollars 
the  remainder  of  his  initiation  fee. 

December  14,  iSi^.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  26 
members  &  13  visitors 

Br  Daniel  Weyman,  Entered  The  sum  of  20 
Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity  The  following 
Officers  were  Elected,  Br  E.  W.  Carr,  W.  M.  E. 
Shelmerdine,  S.  W.  Jos.  Douglas,  J.  W.  Alex" 
Knight,  Secty.     Jos  Burden,  Treas"" 

The  Stewards  bill  amounting  to  $33.24  cts.  was 
ordered  to  be  paid. 

December  16,  iSi^.— Adjourned  Lodge.  Present 
10  members  &  1  visitor     Officers  Installed. 

The  W.  M.  appointed.-Br  Wm  Ruff,  S.  D.  Luther 
Barnes,  J.  D.  Pearson  &  Kelly,  M.  C.  Hamilton  & 
McKeage,  Stewards.     Wm  Snyder,  Tyler. 

January  11,  iSi5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  29 
members  &  21  visitors.      Br.  F.  Nice,  Entered 

The  Committee  who  were  appointed  to  settle  the  Treas- 
urer's account  respectfully 

Repot  t,  That  they  have  carefully  examined  the  account  of 
Joseph  Burden,  Treasurer  of  Lodge  No  2,  for  the  last  six 

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months.  I  have  found  them  Correct.  They  further  report 
that  the  Treasurer  during  that  period  received  the  sum  of 
$475.87/100,  and  expended  $482.01/100,  leaving  a  Balance 
of  $6.14/100  due  by  the  Lodge  to  the  Treasurer. 

That  there  remains  unpaid  an  order  drawn  on  the  Treas- 
urer for  the  sum  of  One  hundred  Dollars,  being  the  balance 
of  the  sum  of  $250.  granted  as  a  donation  by  Lodge  No  2,  to 
the  Grand  Lodge  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  in  building  the 
New  Hall. 

Philadelphia  Dec  26th  1812 

(Signed)     George  A.  Bakee  Jr.  W.  M. 
E.  W.  Carr,  S.  W. 
E.  Shelmerdine,  J.  W. 

A  communication  was  received  from  the  Grand 
Lodge  as  follows,  Grand  Lodge  of  Penna,  in  Extra 
Communication,  Phila  Monday,  Jan  4th  A.  D.  1813, 
A.  L.  5813. 

Resolved,  That  these  Lodges  which  do  not  pay  to  the 
Grand  Lodge  an  annual  rent  for  the  use  of  the  small  Lodge 
room,  shall  pay  the  sum  of  Three  Dollars,  independent  of  the 
expense  of  lighting  for  Each  meeting  they  may  hold  there, 
excepting  when  they  meet  to  install  their  Officers  and  that  it 
be  the  duty  of  the  Grand  Tyler  to  keep  an  account  of  the 
meetings  in  said  room,  of  such  Lodges  and  report  the  same 
to  the  Hall  Committee  who  shall  transmit  it  to  the  Grand 
Secty,  on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  in  every  Year,  to 
be  by  him  Charged  to  the  accounts  of  said  Lodge. 

George  A.  Baker 

Grand  Secty 

A   second   communication   was    received   from   the 

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JLDc  mew  fiDaeonic  Iball,  Cbeetnut  Street 


Grand  Lodge,  containing  a  list  of  the  Officers  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  Elected  on  the  7th  day  of  December, 
A.  L.  1812,  for  the  ensuing  Year,  also  a  list  of  Ex- 
pulsions, Keinstatements  &  Rejections,  communicated 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  by  the  subordinate  Lodges,  and 
by  Foreign  Lodges,  since  the  last  Annual  communi- 
cation. 

On  Motion  Resolved, 

That  the  practice  of  taking  Refreshments  on  Lodge 
nights  be  suspended. 

Resolved 

That  Brs  Allen,  Fearon,  Barnes,  Hamilton  Ruff 
&  Pearson,  be  appointed  a  Committee  to  Collect  the 
outstanding  dues  of  this  Lodge. 

Dues  collected  from  members,  $21 

from  visitors  6.50  cts 

Tylers  bill  ordered  to  be  paid  $28.66  cts 

Reading  of  the  minutes  being  dispensed  with  the 
Lodge  closed  in  Harmony  at  10,  Oclock 

February  8,  i<Si5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  26 
members  &  13  visitors 

An  accident  having  prevented  the  Secretaiy  from 
furnishing  the  minutes  of  the  last  stated  meeting.  On 
motion  Resolved  that  their  reading  this  evening  be 
dispensed  with. 

The  Committee  on  Oliver  M.  Becket  made  the  fol- 
lowing report,  which  was  ordered  to  lie  on  the  Table 
till  next  stated  meeting: 

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We  the  Committee  appointed  to  investigate  tlie  present 
standing  of  Oliver  M.  Becket  have  attended  to  that  duty  & 
beg  leave  to  Report  That  he  is  (at  this  time)  confined  in  the 
debtors  apartment  in  consequence  of  the  Embezzlement  of 
monies  from  his  creditors — the  above  statement  we  received 
from  the  keeper  of  said  prison. 

(Signed)     Edward  Shelmeedine 
Jos.  Douglass 
January  11,  1813. 

Br  Nice  was  examined,  and  found  worthy  of  being 
passed  to  the  degree  of  a  Fellow  Craft  Mason. 

The  sum  of  5  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity. 

February  22,  i<Si5.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Present 
11  members  &  1  visitor 

Brs  Nice,  Weyman,  &  Somers,  Passed  to  the  degree 
of  a  Fellow  Craft  Mason. 

March  8,  i5i5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  24  mem- 
bers &  13  visitors 

Brs  Nice  &  Weyman,  Raised 

A  Communication  was  received  from  the  Grand 
Lodge  asking  for  Subscriptions  for  the  New  Hall, 
when  the  following  Committee  were  appointed, 
Richard  Tybout,  Walter  Kerr,  Joseph  S.  Lewis, 
Samuel  Lippincott,  T.  James  Harper  Jr.  Samuel 
Jackson,  Chas  W.  Westphall,  Thomas  Armet,  & 
Richard  Bache, 

(Signed)     George  A.  Baker 

Grand  Secty 

438 


^be  IRew  fiOasontc  Iball,  Cbeetnut  Street 

April  12,  1813.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  23  mem- 
bers &  7  visitors 

Br  Somers,  Raised 

The  sum  of  5  Dollars  was  granted  for  Charity 

**A  petition  was  received  from  iVlex°  Ramsey  pray- 
ing to  be  initiated  into  the  Mysteries  of  Free  Masonry, 
and  to  become  a  Member  of  this  Lodge." 

May  10,  i(Si5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  16  mem- 
bers &  6  visitors 

"On  Motion,  Resolved, 

That  Lodge  No  2,  Subscribe  $5.  towards  defraying 
the  Expenses,  of  Painting  the  New  Hall,  and  Brs 
Burden,  Shelmerdine  &  Ruff  were  appointed  a  Com- 
mittee to  attend  to  the  same." 

Alex""  Ramsey,  Entered 

Brs.  Knight  Fearon  &  Webster  were  appointed  a 
Committee  to  procure  a  suitable  person  to  collect  the 
outstanding  debts  of  the  Lodge. 

June  14,  i<Si5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  29  mem- 
bers &  7  visitors 

The  Committee  appointed  at  the  stated  meeting  in 
April  to  investigate  the  charge  brought  by  B'  McGuire 
against  B'  John  Douglass  made  the  following  Report, 
which  was  unanimously  approved  of  and  ordered  to 
be  inserted  on  the  minutes  viz : 

To  tJie  Worshipful  Master,  Officers  &  members  of  Lodge  X".  2. 

Th3  Committee  appointed  to  investigate  a  charge  brought 
by  B'".  W°.  Mequire  against  B"".  John  Douglass,  Jun"".  beg 

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leave  to  Report,  That  B"".  W".  Meguire  produced  an  account 
against  B"".  John  Douglass,  Jun"".  amounting  to  $151.93^  which 
B"".  Douglass  admitted  to  be  correct  and  that  he  would  allow 
it  on  settlement  of  an  account  he  had  against  B"".  W™.  Meguire 
amounting  to  $553.64/100  for  which  he  had  sued  B"".  Meguire. 
A  copy  of  s*^.  account  he  produced  to  your  committee,  on  ex- 
amining it  we  found  a  charge  of  $428  being  part  of  a  sum 
awarded  B""  Douglass  by  a  former  committee  from  Lodge 
N°.  2  &  confirmed  by  the  Lodge — from  which  decision  B*". 
Meguire  appealed  to  the  Grand  Lodge.  A  Committee  by 
them  appointed  left  the  said  sum  of  $428  open  for  settlement. 
In  conformity  to  their  decision  he  has  instituted  a  suit  against 
s*^.  B^  W"".  Meguire  being  the  only  means  left  to  obtain  a 
final  decision  thereon.  We  are  therefore  of  opinion  that 
Lodge  N°.  2  cannot  interfere  further  in  the  business.  All 
which  is  respectfully  submitted. 
Philadelphia,  10  June,  1813 

(Signed)     John  O'Brien 
Joseph  Binder. 

Brs  Sommers  &  Baker,  Tellers,  Eeported  the  fol- 
lowing Officers  Elected,  George  A.  Baker  Jr.  W.  M. 
Joseph  Douglass,  S.  W.  Wm  Ruff,  J.  W.  Joseph 
Burden,   Treas''.      John  Sommer,   Secty. 

June  16,  i(Si5.— Adjourned  Meeting.  Tuesday 
Afternoon.     Present  9  members  &  1  visitor 

A  Master  Masons  Lodge  was  opened  in  ancient 
form  at  4  o'C.  P.  M.  All  the  Brethren  not  Past 
Masters  having  withdrawn  Geo.  A.  Baker  Jun""., 
Master  Elect  was  duly  installed  into  office  &  saluted 
according  to   ancient  usage.      The  Brethren   Master 

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^he  mew  flDasonic  Iball,  Chestnut  Street 


Masons  were  admitted.      The  Lodge  then  proceeded 
to  install  the  other  officers  Elect  to  wit 

B^  Joseph  Douglass,  S.  W. 
W".  Euff,  J.  W. 
John  Somer,  Sec''. 
Jos'".  Binder,  Treas^ 

Lodge  closed  in  harmony  at  5  o'C  P.  M. 

July  12,  i(9:Z5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  22  mem- 
bers &  12  visitors 

B'  Neilson  having  produced  the  Minute  Book  of  the 
Lodge  on  motion  Resolved  that  he  be  excused  from 
appearing  before  the  Lodge  as  notified  on  the  last 
meeting. 

Communication  received  from  the  Hall  Committee 
requesting  a  contribution  of  ten  dollars  from  Lodge 
N°.  2  towards  paying  the  expence  of  Painting  the 
Hall.  It  was  resolved  that  the  sum  of  five  dolls,  in 
addition  to  $5  granted  before  be  appropriated 

August  9,  i(9i5.— Stated  Meeting.  Monday.  Pres- 
ent 17  members  &  6  visitors 

John  Nice,  &  Edw  Coxe,  applied  for  Initiation  and 
Membership 

''On  Motion,  it  was  resolved  to  have  moderate 
refreshments  on  the  Stated  nights  of  Meetings." 

"Brs  Carr  and  Nice,  were  appointed  Stewards  with 
directions  not  to  exceed  the  amount  allowed  by  the 
by-laws. ' ' 

September  13,  iSi5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  29 
members  &  5  visitors 

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Eesolved  unanimously  that  Oliver  M.  Beckets  be 
expelled  from  this  Lodge  agreeably  to  a  resolution 
on  a  former  night  for  him  to  appear  before  the  Lodge 
&  show  cause  why  he  should  not  be  expelled  &  re- 
solved that  a  Committee  of  three  be  appointed  to 
enquire  whether  the  two  orders,  viz  one  on  a  M^ 
Gilbert  for  two  hundred  dollars  &  one  for  one  hun- 
dred &  seventy  dollars  on  a  M^  Bartlett  held  by  B"". 
McGuire  against  B^  Jn°.  Douglass  &  which  the 
Grand  Lodge  ordered  to  be  paid— ought  to  be  can- 
celled or  not— when  the  Worshipful  Master  appointed 
B"^.  W".  Euff,  McKeage  &  Sommer  as  the  Committee 
to  report  on  the  next  stated  night  of  meeting. 

Brs.  Nice  &  Coxe,  Entered 

October  11,  i<5i5.— Stated  Meeting.  7  P.  M.  Pres- 
ent 21  members  &  9  visitors 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Case  of  B". 
McGuire  &  Jno.  Douglass  was  read  &  unanimously 
adopted— when  on  motion  it  was  carried  that  any 
further  proceedings  on  the  above  report  be  laid  over 
until  next  stated  night  of  meeting. 

Brs  Nice  &  Coxe,  Crafted 

November  8,  1515.- Stated  Meeting.  Present  22 
members  &  12  visitors. 

An  Entered  Apprentice  Lodge  was  opened  at  7 
o'clock  when  the  minutes  of  the  last  night  were  read 
and  approved  of— after  which  the  following  members 
on  the  list  of  Delinquents  were  reported  to  be  dead 

442 


^be  IRew  fiDasontc  iball,  Chestnut  Street 


viz.  Thomas  Conner,  Derrick  Hartman,  James  Steven- 
son, Sam'.  Harrison  and  Bohen  Martin. 

A  petition  for  Charity  was  received  from  Z.  Meigs 
Bradley  when  in  consequence  of  some  severe  asper- 
sions having  been  alledged  against  the  Character  of 
the  Petitioner,  &  considering  the  low  state  of  the 
Funds  of  the  Lodge  it  was  on  motion  resolved  that 
Z.  Meigs  Bradley  have  leave  to  withdraw  his  petition. 

December  13,  i(5i5.— Stated  Meeting.  Present  25 
members  &  7  visitors. 

It  was  on  motion  resolved  that  the  following  names 
on  the  list  of  Delinquent  members  be  stricken  off— 
viz.;  Edw"^.  W.  Brown,  J.  W.  Carman,  Ebenezer 
Hortman,  John  W.  Pope,  Joseph  Lynch,  Henry 
Marshal,  Bohan  Martin,  Edw"*.  Peplow,  Samuel  Stone- 
man,  W".  J.  Trotter,  Henry  Wistar,  &  John  Warr 
for  non-payment  of  Dues. 

Brs  Cutbush  &  Brien,  appointed  Tellers,  who  re- 
ported the  Election  of  following  Officers,  Edward 
Shelmerdine,  W.  M.  Joseph  Douglass,  S.  W.  Wm 
Ruff,  J.  W.  Joseph  Burden,  Treas^  John  Sommer, 
Secty 

The  W.  M.  J.  W.  Treas''.  &  Secty,  were  duly  in- 
stalled. 

Br  Schneider,  appointed  Tyler. 


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INDEX   TO    SUBJECTS. 


Able,  John,  granted  relief,  335 
Achmet    Ben    Ali,    granted    relief, 

200;  donation  declined,  203 
Adams,  Eobert,  initiated,  35 
Adjournment  on  account  of  being 

election  day,  30 
Admissions  to  membership 

Bailey,  — ,  170 

Baker,  — ,   167 

Boyd,  John,  204 

Brown,  Charles,  102 

Clerk,  Michael,  17 

Cluley,  John,  325 

Cohen,  Moses,  65 

Conner,  — ,  385 

Connor,  Charles,  22 

D'Orsiere,  Louis,  102 

Erdman,  Charles,  24 

Farone,  Edward,  179 

Fisher,  — ,  167 

Gould,  Calvin,  424 

Hopkins,  John  F.,  385 

Jervis,  — ,  167 

Kitts,  George,   170 

Knox,  George,  119 

Lumden,  Robert,  177 

Maillard,  John,  90 

Milnor,  William,  167 

Moore,  Alexander,  129 

Nones,  Benjamin,  48 

O'Hara,  John,  179 

Parish,  John,  48 

Quin,  John,  76 


Smith,  William,  326 
Turner,  Joseph  H.,  345 
Wadman,  Praise,  66 
von  Worn,  William,  48 
Ahiman     Eezon,     revision     of,     2; 

title  page  of,  7 
Allen,  William,  Complaint  against, 
307 ;  report  of  committee  on,  308 
expelled,  348 
Allison,  Eichard,  initiated,  65 
Andrews,  Leonard,  initiated,  385 
Applications  for  warrants  for  new 
Lodges,  107 

Baker,   G.    A.,    complaint    against, 

42 
Baker,  George  A.,  resigned  as  sec- 
retary, 198;  elected  master,  273 
Baker,    George    A.,    Jr.,    initiated, 

353;    elected   master,  419 
Ball,  William,  death  of,  365;  fun- 
eral service  of,  366 
Bankson,  Andrew  B.,  initiated,  198 
Bankson,    Jacob,    elected    master, 

165,  199 
Barry,       John,       initiated,       210; 

granted  assistance,  242 
Bartram,  John,  elected  master,  131 
Batiss,  Elijah,  expelled,  327 
Baxter,  John,  initiated,  210 
Bayard,    Eebecea,    granted    relief, 

377 
Becket,   Oliver  M.,  initiated,  378; 


444 


1lnt)ei  to  Subjects 


report   of  trial  committee   on, 
438;  expelled,  442 
Bevan,    William,    initiated,    396; 

resigned,  433 
Bickley,    Abram,    initiated,    128 
Biglow,  — ,   suspended,   329 
BiU,  for  furniture  and  repairs,  28 ; 
for   music   on    St.    John's    Day, 
50;    for   printing   Dr.    Magaw's 
sermon,  70;  for  repairs  to  Lodge 
room,  86;  for  chiming  bells,  on 
St.  John's  Day,  89;  for  furnish- 
ing Lodge  room,  176;  for  clean- 
ing Lodge  room,  189;  for  settle- 
ment   of   loan,   344;    for   Grand 
Lodge   dues   and   rent,   353,   363 
Bond,    Venables,   petition   for   ini- 
tiation, 48 
Bowen,  Thomas  Bartholomew,  ini- 
tiated, 71 
Bowles,  W.  A.,  rejected  by  Lodge 

No.  4,  64 
Boyd,  John,   admitted,  204 
Bradford,  Joshua,  initiated,  240 
Bradford,       William,       complaint 

against,  12 
Bringhurst,  John  G.,  complaint 
against,  367;  summoned,  368 
Brock,  John,  initiated,  198 
Brooks,  Charles  J.,  granted  relief, 
387;  letter  of  thanks  from,  388 
Brooks  vs.  Meguire,  report  of  trial 

committee,  386 
Brown,  Charles,  admitted,  102 
Brown,  John,  initiated,  204 
Brown,  Mrs.,  granted  relief,  359 
Brown,  Thomas,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 186;  withdrawn,  189 
Buddy,   Peter,  petition  for   initia- 
tion, 214 
Bufiington,  Joshua,  initiated,  210 
Building  Fund,  Part  of  initiation 

fee  to  be  donated  to,  107 
Burden      Joseph,     initiated,     210; 
elected  master,  290 ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  307 


Burland,  Eichard,  initiated,  118 
Burns,  Ann,  granted  relief,  360 
Burroughs,   Norman,   elected   mas- 
ter,   378;    granted    relief,    390; 
widow  of  granted  relief,  415 
Bush,    Isaiah,    initiated,    49;     re- 
signed, 97 
Busman,  John,  initiated,  396 
Butler,  Jonathan,  petition  for  in- 
itiation, 205 
By-Laws   adopted,   217;    approved 
by  Grand  Lodge,  430 

Campbell,  Jane,  granted  relief,  316 
CampbeD,  Naphthali,  initiated,  210 
Cape  Francois,  Lodge  warranted  in, 

107 
Carpenter,   James     initiated,   31 
Carr,  E.  W.,  elected  master,  435 
Carter,  Jasper,  elected  master,  323 
Cash,  Thomas,  initiated,  205 
Chambers,   Joseph,   granted   relief. 

343 
Chambers,  Eobert,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 48 
Chandler,  George,  initiated,  65 
Change  in  meeting  night,  32 
Charity   fund,   effort   to   establish, 
11;  established,  38;  donation  to 
from  George  Washington,  191 
Charity   sermon   by    Kev.   William 
White,  53;  by  Kev.  Samuel  Ma- 
gaw,  67,  191,  197 
Charity    to    non-afliliated    Masons, 
Committee  appointed  to  inquire 
into     357 
Chaudron,    Simon,    Title-page    of 
funeral    oration    by,    on    George 
Washington,  260,  261 
Chedal,  Bro.,  granted  relief,  316 
Chestnut  Street  Masonic  Hall,  Pur- 
chase of  lot  for,  397;  laying  of 
corner-stone  of,  398;  inscription 
on  corner-stone,  401;   dedication 
of,  402;  cost  of,  404;  report  of 
committee    for    government    of, 


445 


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427;  contribution  for  asked,  438 
Chiming  bells  on  St.  John's  Day, 

bill  for,  89 
Christie,  Capt.  John,  granted  relief, 

359 
Clark,  John,  initiated,  117 
Clayton,   Stephen,    elected   master, 

326 
Clerk,  Michael,  rejected  by  Lodge 

No.  4,  17 
Cloer,  John,  initiated,  210 
Close     of     the     provincial     Grand 

Lodge,  103 
Clotworthy,    Ann,    granted    relief, 

334 
Cluley,  John,  admitted,  325;  elected 

master,  358;  resigned,  430 
Coffee,     Thomas,     initiated,     186; 

withdrew,  195 
Cohen,  Moses,  admitted,  65 
Collins,  Lewis,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 214 
Conner,  — ,  admitted,   385 
Connor,  Charles,  admitted,  22 
Cope,  John,  initiated,  171;  charges 
preferred  against,  275;  expelled, 
279;    widow   of,    granted   relief, 
355 
Corner-stone     of     Chestnut     street 
Masonic  hall,  inscription  on,  401 
Corry,  Bridget,  granted  relief,  362 
Corson,  Sarah,  granted  relief,  310 
Courter    Harman,   to   hear   charge 
against,  21;  acquitted  of  charge, 
22;    complaint   against,   38;    ex- 
pelled, 43 
Cowan,  Benjamin,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 186 
Cowperthwait,     Samuel,     initiated, 

209 
Cowperthwaithe,    Mark,    initiated, 

211 
Cowster  —  see  Courter. 
Cox  Sarah,  granted  relief,  352 ;  359 
Coxe,  Edward,  initiated,  442, 


Cozens,  Elijah,  initiated,  167;   ex- 
pelled, 220 
Cozens,  Joshua  Z.,  initiated,  175; 

withdrew,  188 
Crapper,  John  Sydenham,  rejected, 

47 
Crawford,  James,  initiated,  214 
Criddle,  Jonathan,  resigned,  386 
Crozier,  Eobert,  initiated,  97 
Cullen,  Thomas,  initiated,  93 
Cutbush,    James,    elected    master, 
389 

Dally,  Gifford,  initiated,  28 
Daly,  William,  granted  relief,  316 
Darvill,  George,  initiated,  62 
Da  Silva,  Jeremiah,  granted  relief, 

340 
Davidson,  John,  initiated,  163 
Dean,  Catherine,  granted  assistance, 

47 
Dean,  Joseph,  biographical  sketch 
of,  55;  lot  of  ground  presented 
by,  55;  elected  master,  151 
Death  benefit  proposed,  384 
Dedication  of  Chestnvit  street  Ma- 
sonic hall,  402 
Pennsylvania  Freemason 's  hall, 
298 
Delaware,    Lodges    warranted    in, 

107 
Delaware,  Grand  Lodge  of,  recog- 
nition refused,  371 
Dentzell,  John,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 97 
Dermott,  Lawrence,  sketch  of,  135 
Dickey,  Adam,  granted  relief,  362 ; 

widow  of  granted  relief,  382 
Dickson,    William,    granted    assist- 
ance, 234 
Difiibach,  William,  rejected,  318 
Dispensary,  subscription  to,  239 
Dispensation    for    burial    of    John 

Phillips,   392 
Dispensation    to    enter,    pass    and 
raise   John   Adams,   35;    Abram 


446 


InDei  to  Subjecte 


Bickley,  128;  Eiehard  Burlaud, 
118;  James  Carpenter,  31;  John 
Collyer,  308;  Joshua  Z.  Cozens, 
175;  John  Davidson,  163;  Flor- 
ence Donovan,  128;  Peter  Dow, 
35;  Charles  Dryall,  81;  John 
Erwin,  34;  Solomon  Etting,  66; 
John  Floyd,  319;  John  Frietz, 
379;  Samuel  Fulton,  217;  Mich- 
ael Graham,  319;  Ashton  Hum- 
phreys, 73;  James  Johnson,  31; 
George  Lamb,  234;  J.  L.  D.  Le- 
cossoy,  71 ;  Joseph  Lynch,  272 ; 
John  McCloud,  370;  Donald  Mc- 
Donald, 73;  Simon  Maley,  414; 
— Moffit,  14;  Basil  Perateau, 
361;  John  Phillips,  272;  An- 
thony J.  F.  Eoche,  91;  Sherman 
Kuggles,  218;  Joseph  Eush,  369; 
Humphry  Scull,  376;  Haym  Sol- 
omon, 73 ;  Benjamin  Stevens, 
77;  "William  Thompson,  31; 
Thomas  Clark  Trotman,  127; 
Isaac  Van  Vleck,  81;  George 
Wescott,  81;  Thomas  White,  31 
Dolby,    Joseph,    bill    for    chiming 

bells,  89 
Donovan,  Florence,  initiated,  128 
D'Orsiere,  Louis,  admitted,  102 
Dougherty,  John,  initiated,  45 
Douglass,  John,  elected  master,  368 
Douglass  vs.  Meguire,  case  of,  422, 

423,  439,  442 
Dove,  Catherine,  granted  relief,  333 
Dow,  Peter,  initiated,  35 
Drewis,  Wilhelmina,  granted  relief, 

380,  422 
Dryall,  Charles,  initiated,  81 
Duey,  Adam,  resigns,  336 
Duffield,  John,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 186 
Dunton,  William,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 209 
Duponceau,  Stephen,  initiated,  26 
Dusseron,  John,  granted  loan,  47 


Eddison,   Thomas,   request  for  aid 

from,  36 
Egelston,  — ,  suspended,  329 
Ellis,  John,  petition  for  initiation, 

130 
Ellis,  Martha,  granted  relief,  355, 

387 
England,    Grand    Lodge    of    (An- 
cients),   letter    to,    141;    letter 
from  143 
England,   Grand   Lodge   of    (Mod- 
erns) letter  from,  136 ;  reply,  138 
Erdman,     Charles,    admitted,    24; 

elected  master,  72 
Erwin,  John,  initiated,  36 
Espie,  David,  initiated,  45 
Etting,  Solomon,  initiated,  66;  re- 
signed, 92 
Expelled 

Batiss,  Elijah,  327 
Cope,    John,    279 
Courter,  Harman,  43 
Cozens,  Elijah,  220 
Hall,  Benjamin,  321 
Hancong,  Francis,  220 
McManemy,  Charles,  220 
Mitchell,  Joshua,  224 
Eain,  John,  312 
Salsbery,  John,  219 
Warr,  John,  356 
Wister,  Henry,  356 

Farone,  Edward,  admitted,  179 

Ferrall,  Patrick,  elected  master,  50 

Fine  for  non-attendance  repealed, 
89 

First  American  flag  displayed  in 
England,  51 

Fisher,  E.,  expelled  by  Lodge  Xo. 
19,  272 

Fisher,  Jeremiah,  account  settled, 
84;  summoned  to  explain  his  ac- 
count, 86;  suspended,  219 

Flag,  American,  first  displayed  in 
England,  51 

Fox,  Jeremiah,  dues,  remitted,  93 


447 


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Francis,  William,  furnishes  meeting 

place    for    Grand    Lodge,    295 
Frank,    Catherine,    granted    relief, 

316 
Frankford,  John,  initiated,  47 
Franklin,  Benjamin,  death  of,  167 
Franklin,    Lydia,    granted    relief, 

434 
Franklin,  William,  granted  relief, 

343 
Freemason's  fund,  99 
French  emigres,  181 
Frietz,  John,  initiated,   379 
Fritz,  Sarah,  granted  relief,  433 
Fry,  Robert,  granted  relief,  391 

Gamble,  Joseph,  initiated,  179; 
withdrew,   188 

Gambling,  motion  to  expel  mem- 
bers for,  311 

Gatier,   Eene,   granted   relief,    309 

Gatier,  Mary,  granted  relief,  319 

Geary,  Eneas,  initiated,  28 

Georgia,  Lodge  warranted  in,  107 

Ginochio,  Lewis  Ge.,  granted  relief, 
377 

Gionovoly,  Samuel,  application  for 
charity,  128 

Gould,  Calvin,  admitted,  424 

Graff,  Casper,  charges  preferred 
against,  276;  granted  relief, 
332;  widow  of  granted  relief, 
347,  350 

Grand  Lodge  certificates,  applica- 
tions for,  109 

Grand  Lodge  dues,  arrearages  to 
be  paid,  12 

Grand  Lodge  of  Delaware,  recog- 
nition of  refused,  371 

Grand  Lodge  of  England  (An- 
cients), letter  to,  141;  letter 
from   143 

Grand  Lodge  of  England  (Mod- 
erns), letter  from,  136;  reply 
to,  138 

Grand     Lodge     of     Pennsylvania 


formed,  103;  notice  of  the  es- 
tablishment of,  130,  132;  letter 
from  to  Grand  Lodge  of  Eng- 
land, 133 ;  duplicate  sent  by  Bro. 
Bush,  135;  independence  of  ac- 
knowledged by  Grand  Lodge  of 
England,  143;  permanent  home 
for,  257,  283,  289,  402;  removal 
of  from  Independence  Hall,  275; 
accepts  offer  of  William  Francis 
for  a  meeting  place,  296 

Grant,  Peter,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 314;   elected  master,  337 

Grayson,    Benjamin,    initiated,    17 

Green,  E.,  initiated,  200 

Guise,  William,  initiated,  31;  sus- 
pended, 219 

Guize,  Henry,  initiated,  33 

Hadingran,  Peter,  given  donation, 

73 
Hall,  Benjamin,  expelled,  321 
Hall,  Elizabeth,  granted  relief,  321, 

347 
Hall,   Margaretta,    granted    relief, 

314 
Hamill,  John,  initiated,  190;   sus- 
pended, 220 
Hamilton,  David,  initiated,  30 
Hamilton,  John,  rejected  by  Lodge 

No.  4,  118 
Hamilton,  John,  granted  relief,  306 
Hancong,   Francis,   initiated,   164; 

expelled,  220 
Harrison,  John,  suspended,  219 
Harrison,  William,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation presented  and  withdrawn, 
199 
Hartley,  James,  initiated,  31 
Hartman,  Derrick,  granted  relief 
346;  wife  of  granted  relief,  417 
Hawke,  Joseph,  rejected  by  Lodge 

No.  4,  43 
Hayden,  — ,  complaint  against,  327 
Healy,  William,  granted  assistance, 
237 


448 


1Int)ex  to  Subjects 


Hicks,    Eichard,    petition    for    ini- 
tiation, 186;  withdrawn,  187 
Higher  Degrees  of  Freemasonry  to 

be  worked,  273 
Hiss,  Henry,  granted  relief,  387 
Hoffman,    Widow,    granted    relief, 

330 
Holbrook,      Benjamin,      initiated, 

433 
Hoopes,  — ,   admitted,   12 
Hoover,  Adam,  granted  relief,  305 ; 

suspended,  329 
Hopkins,  John  F.,  admitted,  385 
House,  Samuel,  initiated,  97 
Houston,  Matthew,  initiated,  78 
Hoy,  John,  granted  assistance,  240 
Hubbard,  Christian,  initiated,  198 
Hubly,    Elizabeth,    granted    relief, 

418 
Humphreys,  Ashton,  initiated,  73; 
elected    master,    90;    suspended, 
219 
Hunt,  Eiehard,  suspended,  219 
Huston,  John,  initiated,  200;   sus- 
pended, 211 
Huston,  Matthew,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 77 

Hlegal  Masonic  meetings,  364 

Independence  Hall,  petition  to  Gov- 
ernor for  permission  to  meet  in, 
250;  Grand  Lodge  removes  from 
295 

Independence  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania  acknowledged 
by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England, 
143 

Inginz,  Martin,  bill  for  furniture 
and  repairs,  28 

Initiation  fee,  committee  appointed 
to  consider  propriety  of  raising, 
17;  increased,  19;  motion  to 
raise,  307;  rejected,  309 

Initiations — 

Adams,  Kobert,  35 
29  449 


Allison,  Eiehard,  65 
Andrews,  Leonard,  385 
Baker,  George  A.,  Jr.,  353 
Bankson,  Andrew  B.,  198 
Barry,  John,  210 
Baxter,  John,   210 
Becket,  Oliver  M.,  378 
Bevan,  William,  397 
Bickley,  Abram,   128 
Bowen,  Ezekiel,  12 
Bowen,  Thomas  B.,  71 
Bradford,  Joshua,  240 
Brock,    John,    198 
Brown,  John,  204 
Buffington,   Joshua,   210 
Burden,  Joseph,  210 
Burland,  Eiehard,  118 
Bush,  Isaiah,  49 
Busman,  John,  396 
Campbell,  Naphthali,  210 
Carpenter,  James,  31 
Cash,  Thomas,  205 
Chandler,  George,  65 
Clark,  John,  117 
Cloer,  John,  210 
Coffee,  Thomas,  188 
Cope,  John,   171 
Cozens,  Elijah,  167 
Cozens,  Joshua  Z.,  175 
Cowperthwait,  Mark,   211 
Cowperthwait,  Samuel,  209 
Coxe,  Edward,  442 
Crawford,  James,  214 
Crozier,  Eobert,  97 
Cullen,   Thomas,  93 
Dally,  Thomas,  28 
Darvill,  George,  62 
Davidson,  John,  163 
Donovan,  Florence,  128 
Dougherty,  John,  45 
Dow,  Peter,  35 
Dryall,   Charles,    81 
Duponceau,  Stephen,  26 
Erwin,  John,  36 
Espie,  David,  45 


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Etting,  Solomon,  66 
Frankf  ord,  John,  47 
rrietz,  John,  379 
Gamble,  Joseph,  179 
Geary,  Eneas,  28 
Grayson,  Benjamin,  17 
Green,  E.,  200 
Guise,  William,  31 
Guize,  Henry,  33 
Hamill,  John,  190 
Hamilton,  David,  30 
Hancong,  Francis,  164 
Hartley,  James,  31 
Holbrook,   Benjamin,   433 
House,  Samuel,  97 
Houston,  Matthew,  78 
Hubbard,  Christian,  198 
Huffnagle,  Col.,  45 
Humphreys,   Ashton,    73 
Huston,  John,  200 
Irvin   John,   36 
Irving,    David,    195 
Jervis,  Nathan,  198 
Johnson,  James,  31 
Jones,  Abraham,  92 
Jordan,  John,  22 
Jordan,  Levi,  209 
Justice,  John,  186 
Justice,  Laurence,  210 
Keeler,  William,  30 
Kelly,  John,  186 
Kessler,  John,  209 
Knowles,  William  B.,  312 
Koch,  John  Gerrard,  49 
Krichbaum,  Conrad,  378 
Kunckell,  William,  85 
Lancaster,  John,  310 
Laney,  George,  179 
Lecossoy,  J.  L.  Dusautoy,  71 
Lees,  Samuel,  199 
Longehamps,  Chevalier  Charles 

J.,  49 
Lynch,  Joseph,   272 
McCullough,  John,  186 
McDonald,  Donald,  73 
McFee,  Eobert,  198 


McKeage,    James,    424 
McKinnie,  Isaac,  177 
McLaughlin,  Dennis,  205 
McManemy,  Charles,  209 
MacGuffin,  Eichard,  12 
Maley,  Simon,  415 
Mansfield,  Joseph,  205 
Martin,  John,  190 
Matlack,  White,  37 
Maybray,   Thomas,  28 
Melbeck,  John,  85 
Mesey,  Henry,  272 
Mewse,  Thomas,  41 
Milnor,  William,  34 
Mitchell,   Joshua,   210 
Mitchell,   Samuel,   210 
Moffitt,   —     15 
Moore,  Tristram,  17 
Morris,  John,  177 
Morrow,  Abraham,  205 
Morton,    John,    190 
Murphy,  Michael,  210 
Myers,  Henry,  189 
Nice,  F.,  435 
Nice,  John,  441 
Nickerson,  Ebenezor,  22 
Nuttle,  Charles,  77 
Otto,  Daniel  B.,  322 
Patterson,  John,   209 
Patton,  John,  190 
Paxton,  Samuel,  417 
Pearson,  Isaac,  417 
Peircy,  Henry,  31 
Pennington,  Isaac,  34 
Perateau,  Basil,   361 
Phillips,  John,  272 
Pierce,  Joseph,  195 
Eamsey,  Alexander,  439 
Eawlings,  Moses,  47 
Eice,  John,  65 
Eiley,  John,   175,  200 
Eobinson,  Edward,  209 
Eobinson,  James,  383 
Eobinson,  Eudman,  190 
Eoche,  Anthony  J.  F.,  91 
Eourk,  Miles,  205 


450 


llnt)ei  to  Subjecte 


Euggles,  Sherman,  218 

Salsbery,  John,  65 

Sayres,  David,  211 

Scull,  Humphry,  376 

Search,  Thomas,  172 

Shotwell,  William,  27 

Simms,    Charles,    178 

Simon,    William,    385 

Solomon,  Haym,   74 

Speer,  Thomas,  17 

Starman,   Frederick  W.,   69 

Steel,  John,  198 

Stevens,  Benjamin,  77 

Sweitzer,  Christian,  209 

Taylor,  John  E.,  199 

Thomas,  James,  425 

Thompson,  William,  31 

Tinsley,  William,  17 

Tobin,  Dr.  Jacob,  126 

Towers,  John,  434 

Trotman,  Thomas  C,  127 

Twining,  Nathan,  37 

Vantenbergh,  Thomas,  210 

Van  Vleck,  Isaac,  81 

Walker,  Joseph,  73 

Warren,  William,  281 

Way  man,  Edward,  28 

Webster,  James  T.,  432 

Weeks,    Benjamin,    290 

Wescott,  George,  81 

Weyman,  Daniel,  435 

White,  Ephraim,  178 

White,  Thomas,  31 

Wiley,  Thomas,  23 

Wintheval,  Abraham,  378 

Wistar,  Michael,  209 

Wister,    Caspar,   40 

Wister,  Henry,  204 

Yard,  William,   164 
Irregular  Lodges,  Visitors  to  to  be 

expelled,  229 
Irvin,   John,   initiated,   36 
Irving,      David,      initiated,      195, 

elected  master,  211 
Irving,  David,  rejected,  281 


Israel,  Israel,  installed  Grand  Mas- 
ter, 303 

Jervis,     Nathan,     initiated,     198; 

suspended,  219 
Johnson,  James,  initiated,  31 
Johnson,  John,  granted  relief,  316 
Jones,  Abraham,  initiated,  92 
Jordan,  John,  initiated,  22 
Jordan,  Levi,  initiated,  209 
Jordan,  Sarah,  granted  assistance, 

235 
Jourdon,  Mrs.,  granted  relief,  432 
Justice,  John,  initiated,   186 
Justice,   Lawrence,  initiated,   210; 

children    of    granted    assistance, 

236 

Kaekler,  John,  rejected  by  Lodge 

No.  4,  118 
Kane,  John,  granted  relief,  338 
Kann,    Benjamin,    granted    relief, 

319 
Kean,  John,  granted  relief,  382 
Keeler,  William,  initiated,  30 
Kelly,  John,  initiated,  186 
Kenny,     Widow,     granted     relief, 

322 
Kerlin,   Mathias,   petition   for  ini- 
tiation, 23 
Kessler,      John,      initiated,      209; 

elected  master,   246 
Keyser,  Adam,  granted  relief,  314 
King,   Bro.,   given   assistance,   100 
Kitts,  George,  suspended,  219 
Knowles,     William    B.,     initiated, 

312;    widow   of,   granted   relief, 

380 
Knox,  George  admitted,  119 
Koch,  John  Gerrard,  initiated,  49 
Krichbaum,  Conrad,  initiated,  378 
Kuhn,    Catharine,    granted    relief, 

321 
Kuhn,  George  K.,  resigned,  433 
Kunckell,  William,  initiated,  85 
Lafayette's  visit,  52 


451 


1730— ifreemasonr^  in  Pennsylvania  — 1907 


Lamarquissi,  B.,  given  assistance, 
89 

Lancaster,  John,  initiated,  310 

Laney,  'George,  initiated,  179;  sus- 
pended, 220 

Lawler,  Thomas  F.,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 198 

Lecossoy,  J.  L.  Dusautoy,  initiated, 
71 

Ledaut,   Lambert,   rejected,   214 

Lees,  Samuel,  initiated,  199;  re- 
signed,  356 

Lennon,  Dennis,  rejected,  71 

Lese,  Philip    death  of,  418 

List  of  members,  212 

Littlewood,  Fanny,  granted  relief, 
314 

Loan  made  to  Grand  Lodge,  289 

Lockman,  John,  granted  relief,  337 

Lodge  building,  rent  and  expenses 
of,  20;  subscription  for  ground- 
rent  of,  29,;  lot  of  ground  pre- 
sented for,  55;  deed  for  lot,  57; 
committee  appointed  to  build, 
59;  subscription  for  building, 
58;  committee  appointed  to  re- 
ceive subscriptions  for,  87 ;  sold 
98;  rented  at  Fifth  and  Arch 
streets,  169;  purchased,  257 

Lodge  certificates  to  be  surren- 
dered, 280 

Lodge  dues,  committee  appointed 
to  consult  on  the  necessity  of 
raising,  36;  report  of  committee 
adopted,  38 

Lodge  No.  2,  Warrant  from  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  148,  160 

Lodge  No.  2,  No  meetings  held,  152 

Lodge  No.  2,  Provincial  warrant 
of,  158 

Lodge  No.  4,  granted  permission  to 
meet  in  Lodge  room,  34 

Lodge  No.  9,  granted  permission  to 
meet  in  Lodge  room,  24 

Lodge  No.  19  warranted,  107 

Lodge  of  Perfection,  Consecration, 


of,  55,  94;  granted  use  of  Lodge 
room,  83 ;  members  of,  96 

Lodge  of  Sorrow  in  memory  of 
George  Washington,  258,  262 

Lodges,  Applications  for  warrants 
for  new,  107 

Longchamps,  Chevalier  Charles 
Julian,  initiated,  49;  biograph- 
ical sketch  of,  69 

Lot  for  Masonic  building  pres- 
ented, 55 ;  sold,  61 

Love,  Peter,  granted  assistance,  216 

Lowe,  Widow,  granted  relief,  349 

Lynch    Joseph,  initiated,  272 

McBride,  Archibald,  application 
for  charity,  127 

McCarty,  Felix,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 195 

McClatchie,  Alexander,  granted  re- 
lief, 380 

McClemons,   Samuel,   rejected,  318 

McCormick,  Hugh,  given  assist- 
ance,  85 

McCullough,    John,    initiated,    186 

McCune,  Eobert,  granted  relief, 
339 

McDonald,  Donald,  initiated,  73 

McFadden,  William,  rejected  by 
Lodge  No.  9,  218 

McFee,  Eobert,  initiated,  198; 
widow  of  granted  relief,  320 

McGuhan,  Edward,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 22 

McGuirck,  James,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 211;  withdrawn,  214 

McKeage,  James,  initiated,  424 

McKinnie,  Isaac,  initiated,  177; 
granted   relief,    332 

McLane,  Allen,  biographical 
sketch  of,  109;  facsimile  of 
application  for  Grand  Lodge 
Certificate,   111 

McLaughlin,  Dennis,  initiated, 
205;   granted  assistance,  219 


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McManemy,      Charles,      initiated, 

205;  expelled,  220 
McNeer,  George,  petition   for  ini- 
tiation,   211 
McNeill,  Gordon,  rejected,  208 
McEeynolds,   Thomas,   granted   re- 

Hef,  357 
MacGuflSji,  Kiehard,  initiated,  12 
MacPherson,  John,  granted  use  of 
Lodge   room,   13;   permission   to 
use  Lodge  room  revoked,  18 
Magaw,    Samuel,   D.D.,    Title-page 
of  sermon  delivered  by,  67,  197; 
Masonic    prayer    by,    193;    title 
page     of     funeral     oration     on 
George  Washington,  269 
MaGee,   Mrs.,   granted   relief,   347 
Maguire,   William,   elected  master, 

353 
Maher,  Lawrence,  death  of,  341 
Maley,  Simon,  initiated,  415 
Manning,  Hugh,   petition   for   ini- 
tiation, 200 
Mansfield,  Joseph,  initiated,  205 
Marks,  S.   M.,   granted  relief,  317 
Marley,   Thomas,  wife   of  granted 

relief,  281 
Marriner,    Widow,   granted    relief, 

339 
Marshall,   Thomas,   granted   relief, 

382 
Martin,  Bohan,  rejected,  375;   ob- 
jection removed  380 
Martin  H.,  petition  for  initiation, 

62 
Martin,  John,  initiated,  190 
Maryland,    Lodges    warranted    in, 

107 
Mason,  Francis,  widow  of  granted 

relief,  305,  321,  334,  361,  420 
Masonic  building,  efforts  to  erect, 
54;  lot  of  ground  presented  for, 
55;  deed  for  lot,  57;  subscrip- 
tions for,  69,  222;  subscriptions 
for  new  hall  to  be  collected,  354 ; 
contribution  toward,  374 


Mathews,   — ,   granted   relief,   332 
Matlack,  White,  initiated,  37 
Maxton,  Peter,  petition  for  admis- 
sion, 215 
Maybray,   Thomas,  initiated,   28 
Meeting  night,  changed,  32 
Meguire,  Wm.,  charges  against,  386 
Melbeck,  John,  initiated,  85 
Members  in  arrears,  214 
Members   to   be    properly   clothed, 

222 
Members  admitted.     See  Admission 

to  membership 
Mesey,  Henry,  initiated,  272 
Mewse,  Thomas,  initiated,  41 
Michaels,   Rachael,   granted   relief, 

391 
Miller,  James,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 211 
Milnor,  William,  initiated,  34;  sus- 
pended, 219 
Minutes  of  Lodge  No.  2,  Eeport  of 

the  Grand  Secretary  on,  372 
Mitchell,    Joshua,    initiated,    210; 

expelled,  224 
Mitchell,  Samuel,  initiated,  210 
Moffitt,  —    initiated,  15 
Mooney,    Eachael,    granted    relief, 

310 
Moore,  Alexander,  admitted,  129 
Moore,  Tristram,  initiated,  17 
Moore,  William,  widow  of  granted 

relief,  24 
Morris,  John,  initiated,  177 
Morrison,    Alexander,    widow    of, 

granted  relief,  350,  359 
Morrison,  Hugh,  rejected  by  Lodge 

No.  19,  218 
Morrow,  Abraham,  initiated,  205 
Morthwaite,   Eichard,  petition  for 
initiation,    195;    withdrawn    195 
Morton,  John,  initiated,  190 
Mosser,  — ,  suspended,  329 
Murphy,  Michael,  initiated,  210 
Musgrove,  Aaron,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 36;  under  age,  37 


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Music  on  St.  Jolin's  Day,  bill  for, 

50 
Myers,  Henry,  initiated,  189 

Newry,  — ,  granted  relief,  332 
Newcomb,  Obadia,  granted  relief, 

353 
New  Jersey,  Lodges  warranted  in, 

107 
Nice,  F.,  initiated,  434 
Nice,   John,  initiated,  441 
Nickerson,  Ebenezor,  initiated,  22 
Nield,  Charles,  granted  relief,  376 ; 

death   of,   377 
Nones,  Benjamin,  admitted,  48 
Noviek,  Widow,  granted  relief,  339 
Nuttle,    Charles,   initiated,    77 

O 'Brian,  John,  elected  master,  331 
O'Brien,  Timothy,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 209;  withdrawn,  210 
O'Hara,  John,  admitted,  179;  sum- 
moned  to    answer    a    charge    of 
theft,  189 
Oldham,  John,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 211 
Orr,  Eobert,  granted  relief,  321 
Oswald,    Eleazer,    sketch    of,    140 
Otto,  Daniel  B.,  initiated,  322 
Otto,  John  Matthew,  petition,  for 

initiation,  63 
Owen,  Mary,  granted  relief,  341 

Park,  John,  loan  granted  to,  125 
Parker,  William,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 48 
Parrish,  John,  admitted,  48 
Patterson,  John,  initiated,  209 
Patton,  John,  initiated,  190;   vote 

of  thanks  to,  274 
Paxton,  Samuel,  initiated,  417 
Peace  celebration,  51 
Pearson,  Isaac,  initiated,  417 
Peek,  William,  suspended,  273 
Peircy,  Henry,  initiated,  31 
Pemberton,  Allen,  215 


Pennington,    Isaac,    initiated,    34; 

elected  master,  79,  120;  declined 

to  serve  as  master,  125 
Pennsylvania     Freemasons '     Hall, 

dedication  of,  298 
Pennsylvania,     Grand     Lodge     of 

formed,  103 
Pennsj'lvania,  Lodges  warranted  in, 

1780-1786,    107 
Perateau,  Basil,  initiated,  361 
Phillips,  John,  elected  master,  249; 

death  of,  393 
Phillips,  John,  initiated,  272 
Pierce,    John,   petition    for   initia- 
tion, 195 
Pierce,  Joseph,  initiated,  195 
Pilmore,  Eev.  Joseph,  charity  ser- 
mon by,  113;   facsimile  of  title 

page  of  sermon,  114 
Pitcher,    Widow,    granted    relief, 

324 
Proctor,    Thomas,    elected    master 

43;    payment   for   arrearages   in 

dues,  63;  sketch  of,  153;   death 

of,  328 
Proctor  vs.   Young,   report   of   the 

trial  committee  in   the   case   of, 

154 
Programme  for  the  celebration  of 

St.     John     the     Baptist's     Day, 

1786,  120 
Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  close  of, 

103 
Provincial   warrant   of  Lodge   No. 

2,  158 
Pullen,  Eobert,  elected  master,  282 

Quin,  John,  admitted,  76 

Eain,  John,  expelled,  312 
Eamsey,   Alexander,   initiated,  439 
Eawlings,   Moses,   initiated,   47 
Eaynor,    Thomas,    elected    master, 

313 
Eefreshments,   practice    of    having 

suspended,  487 


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Eeiley,  John,  petition  for  initiation 

approved,  22 
Eeiley,  Sarah,  granted  relief,  326, 

334 
Eeiseh,  Henry,  resigned,  385 
Eeisch  vs.  Bringhurst,  case  of,  349 

351,  367,  368 
Eejected — 

Bowles,  W.  A.,  64 
Clark,  Michael,  17 
Crapper,  John  Sydenham,  47 
Diffibach,  William,  318 
Hamilton,  John,  118 
Hawke,  Joseph,  43 
Irving,  David,  281 
Kackler,'  John,  118 
Ledant,  Lambert,  214 
Lennon,  Dennis,  71 
McClemons,  Samuel,  318 
McFadden,  William,  218 
McNeill,   Gordon,   208 
Morrison,  Hugh,  218 
Ehea,  Oliver,  209 
Shoemaker,  Abram,  38 
Shoemaker,  David,  31 
Smith,  Hugh,  27 
Smith,  John  Erdman,  43 
Eeport   of   committee   on  the   gov- 
ernment of  the  Chestnut  Street 
Masonic  hall,  427 
Eeport   of   trial   committee  in   the 
case     of     William    Allen,     308; 
Oliver   M.   Becket,   438;    Brooks 
vs.    Meguire,    386;    John    Cope, 
275;    Charles    McManemy,    220; 
Joshua    Mitchell,    223;    Proctor 
vs.  Young,  154;  Eeisch  vs.  Bring- 
hurst, 368 
Ehea,  Oliver,  rejected,  209 
Eheinwald,  Frederick,  petition  for 

initiation,  40 
Eice,  John,  initiated,  65 
Eichards,    George,    sketch    of,    299 
Eiley.  Edward,  petition  for  initia- 
tion, 200 
Eiley,  John,  initiated,  175,  200 


Eobinson,     Alexander,     widow     of 

granted  relief,  383 
Eobinson,  Edward,  initiated,  209 
Eobinson,  Henry,  suspended,  273 
Eobinson,  James,  initiated,  383 
Eobinson,   Eudman,   initiated,    190 
Eoche,     Anthony    Joseph     Ferara, 

initiated,  91 
Eogers,    William,    letter    from    re- 
questing aid  for  Mrs.  Ann  Tat- 
nall,   35 
Eourke,  Miles,  initiated,  205 
Euggles,  Sherman,  initiated,  218 
Eutherf  ord,  Alexander,  elected  mas- 
ter, 101;    death  of,  170 
Eutherford,  John,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 25 
Eutter,  Sarah,  granted  relief,  387 

St.   John  the  Baptist's  Day,   pro- 
gramme   for    celebration,    1786, 
120 
Salsbery,  John,  initiated,   65;    ex- 
pelled, 219 
Sayres,  David,  initiated,  211 
Scull,  Humphry,  initiated,  376 
Seal  for  the  Lodge  made,  188 
Search,  Thomas,  initiated,  172 ;  sus- 
pended, 219 
Shaw,  James,   petition   for  admis- 
sion, 201 ;  resigned,  385 
Shewell,  Hughan,  Jr.,  petition  for 

admission,   22 
Shoemaker,  Abram,  petition  for  in- 
itiation, 36;  rejected,  38;  rejec- 
tion investigated,  41;   investiga- 
tion abandoned,  42 
Shoemaker,  David,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 30;  rejected,  31 
Shotwell,  William,  initiated,  27 
Shrupp,  Col.  Henry,  granted  relief, 

349 
Sickness,  weekly  allowance  during, 

proposed,   384 
Simms,  Charles,  initiated,  178 
Simon,  William,  initiated,  385 


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Simpson,  Samuel,  granted  relief, 
317 

Site  for  Masonic  building  pre- 
sented, 55 

Smith,  Daniel  D.,  granted  relief, 
387 

Smith,  Hugh,  rejected  by  Lodge, 
No.  9,  27 

Smith,  John  Erdman,  rejected  by 
Lodge  No.  4,  43 

Smith,  Kev.  William,  letter  from, 
44;   sermon  by,  206 

Smith,  William,  admitted,  326 

Smith,  William  Moore,  to  be  asked 
to  settle  his  account  as  treasurer, 
76 

Snyder,  Henry,  holding  illegal 
Masonic  meetings,   364 

Solomon,  Haym,  initiated,  74 

South  Carolina,  Lodges  warranted 
in,  107 

Speer,  Thomas,  initiated,  17 

Spinacuta,  A.  B.,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 214;  widow  of  granted 
relief,  338 

Stanley,  Norris,  biographical 
sketch  of,  358 

Starman,  Frederick  William,  ini- 
tiated, 69;  resigned,  127 

State  House,  petition  to  governor 
for  permission  to  meet  in,  250; 
Grand  Lodge  removes  from,  295 

Steel,  John,  initiated,  198;  re- 
signed, 210 

Stevens,  Benjamin,  initiated,  77 

Stoneman,  Samuel,  granted  relief, 
434 

Strickland,  William,  architect  of 
the  Chestnut  street  Masonic  hall, 
399 

Subscription  list  for  Lodge  build- 
ing, 88 

Subscriptions  for  new  hall  to  be 
collected,  354 

Summons  for  meeting  of  Grand 
Lodge,  230 


Summons  to  be  sent  to  every  mem- 
ber, 46 
Suppers  after  meetings  to  be  abol- 
ished, 384 
Suspended — 

Biglow,  — ,  329 

Egelston,  — ,  329 

Fisher,  Jeremiah,  219 

Guise,  William,  219 

Hamill,  John,  220 

Harrison,  John,  219 

Hoover,  Adam,   329 

Humphreys,  Ashton,  219 

Hunt,  Eichard,  219 

Huston,  John,  211 

Jervis,  Nathan,  219 

Kitts,  George,  219 

Laney,  George,  220 

Milnor,  William,  219 

Mosser,  — ,  329 

Peek,  William,  273 

Eobinson,  Henry,  273 

Search,  Thomas,  219 

Thompson,  Wm.  329 
Sweitzer,   Christian,   initiated,   209 

Tackholm,  Bro.,  granted  relief,  306 
Tatem,  Thomas,  granted  relief,  421 
Tatnall,   Mrs.   Ann,   aid   requested 

for,  35 
Taylor,  John  E.,  initiated,  199 
Thomas,  David,  granted  relief,  325 
Thomas,  James,  initiated,  425 
Thompson,  William,  initiated,  31 ; 

suspended,  329 
Tinsley,  William,  initiated,  17 
Title-page    of   charity    sermon    de- 
livered by  Samuel  Magaw,  D.D., 
67,  197;  by  William  White,  D.D., 
80 
Title-page   of   funeral   oration   for 
George    Washington,    260,    261, 
269 
Tobin,  Dr.  Jacob,  initiated,  126 
Topham,   William,   granted   relief, 
361 


456 


M^cx  to  Subjects 


Towers,  John,  initiated,  434 
Treaty  of  peace  celebrated,  51 
Trial  committee,  report  of  in  case 
of  William  Allen,  308;  Oliver  M. 
Becket,  438 ;  Brooks  vs.  Meguire, 
386;    John    Cope,    275;    Charles 
McManemy,  220;  Joshua  Mitch- 
ell, 223;  Proctor  vs.  Young,  154; 
Eeisch  vs.  Bringhurst,  368 
Trotman,  Thomas  Clark,  initiated, 

127 
Turner,  Joseph  H.,  admitted,  345 
Twining,  Nathan,  initiated,  37 
Tyler's  fee,  19 

Vanbrust,  Mary,  granted  relief,  338 
Vance,  David  G.,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 211 ;  withdrawn,  214 
Vandersliee,  Jacob,  granted  relief, 

380 
Vantenbergh,  Thomas,  initiated,  210 
Van  Vleck,  Isaac,  initiated,  81 
Vassault,  Thomas,  granted  relief,  355 
Virginia,  Lodges  warranted  in,  107 
Visitors  to  irregular  Lodges  to  be 

expelled,  229 
von  Worn,  William,  admitted,  48; 
committee  appointed  to  ascer- 
tain why  he  left  the  Lodge  with- 
out settling  his  accounts  as  sec- 
retary, 75;  asked  to  render  an 
account  of  the  money  received  by 
him,  100 

Wadman,  Praise,  admitted,  66 
Walker,  Elizabeth,  granted  relief, 

363 
Walker,   Joseph,  initiated,   73 
Walker,  Martha,  granted  relief,  319 
Walters,  Elizabeth,  granted  relief, 

381 
Warner,  Edward,  resigned,  422 
Warr,  John,  expelled,  356 
Warrant    for   Lodge    No.    2    from 

Grand    Lodge    of    Pennsylvania, 

148 


W^arrcn,  William,  initiated,  281 
Washington,  George,  arms  of  to  be 
prefixed    to    Ahiman    Rezon,    3; 
address  to,  173,  letter  from,  174; 
donation  from  to  charity  fund, 
191;  address  of  Grand  Lodge  to, 
225;   reply  to  address,  227;  me- 
morial service  for,  253,  258,  262 
Wayman,  Edward,  initiated,  28 
W^ebster,  James  T.,  initiated,  432 
Weeks,  Benjamin,  initiated,  290 
Wescott,  George,  initiated,  81;  not 
permitted    to     resign    office     of 
treasurer,  102 
Westheim,    A.    J.,    granted    relief, 

391 
Weynian,  Daniel,  initiated,  435 
White,  Ephraim,  initiated,  178 
White,  Thomas,  initiated,  31 
White,  Rev.  William,  title-page  of 
charity  sermon  preached  by,  80 
Whitehead,    Joseph,    petition    for 

initiation,  189 
Wiley,  Thomas,  initiated,  23 
W^inner,  James,  family  of  granted 

relief,  422;   resigned,  433 
Winter,  Bro.,  resigned,  356 
Winthevel,  Abraham,  initiated,  378 
Wistar,  Michael,  initiated,  209 
Wister,  Caspar,  initiated,  40 
Wister,  Hemy,  initiated,  204;   ex- 
pelled, 356 
Wister,  Eichard,  elected  master,  33 
Woch,  Mary,  granted  relief,  387 
Woodhouse,  William,  bill  for  bind- 
ing Ahiman  Eezon,  10 
Woods,   Elizabeth,   granted   relief, 
418 

Yard,  William,  initiated,  164 
Yellow  fever  epidemic.  Lodge 
closed  on  account  of,  182,  234, 
242,  248;  account  of  in  Free- 
masons' magazine,  183 
Yerkes,  Anthony,  petition  for  ini- 
tiation, 211 


457 


INDEX    TO    NAMES. 


Abel,  422 

Able,  244,  277,  292,  329,  335,  336, 
362 

Achmet  Ben  Ali,  200,  203,  204 

Adam,  112 

Adams,  16,  17,  20,  35,  36 

Adcock,  28,  33,  35,  42,  57,  58,  59, 
87,   116,   134,   136,   138 

Aertson,  25 

Agar,  145,  146 

Alexander,  87,  90 

Allcorn,  333 

Allen,  26,  135,  275,  283,  291,  292, 
293,  306,  307,  308,  314,  316,  319, 
321,  325,  326,  329,  331,  334,  338, 
348,  351,  420,  431,  433,  437 

Allison,  63,  65,  70,  71,  73,  165 

Alrich,  32 

Anderson,  49,  108,  187,  199,  213, 
215,  219 

Andre,  153 

Andrews,  302,  385,  420 

Angus,  76,  88,  110,  117 

Armet,  438 

Armstrong,  108,  207 

Arnold,  140 

Arrowsmitli,  340 

Athol,  Duke  of,  146 

Aue,  81,  82 

Auld,  236,  237,  242 

Babe,  187 
Bache,  415,  438 


Baile,  272 

Bailey,  164,  170,  178 

Baily,  166,  169 

Bainbridge,   358 

Baker,  42,  167,  172,  180,  195,  198, 
215,  221,  223,  224,  230,  244,  253, 
254,  263,  265,  267,  270,  273,  274, 
275,  276,  277,  282,  287,  294,  295, 
304,  305,  315,  351,  352,  353,  354, 
355,  357,  360,  362,  364,  368,  371, 
375,  378,  379,  383,  391,  392,  400, 
415,  416,  419,  420,  426,  429,  430, 
431,  436,  438,  440 

Ball,  3,  20,  56,  57,  88,  158,  159, 
167,  168,  365 

Bankson,  23,  33,  41,  88,  109,  110 
117,  118,  126,  147,  157,  159,  160, 
161,  162,  163,  164,  165,  167,  169, 
172,  175,  180,  195,  198,  199,  200, 
201,  202,  205,  212,  213,  215,  219 

Barnes,  368,  391,  435,  437 

Barnum,  419 

Barry,  209,  210,  211,  213,  215,  242, 
292,  358 

Bartlett,  442 

Bartling,  375 

Bartliss,   246 

Bartram,  49,  81,  82,  88,  89,  90,  101, 
102,  110,  113,  118,  119,  120,  126, 
131,  147,  148,  375,  379 

Bary,  291 

Batiss,  327 

Bawlby,   377 


458 


1lnt)ei  to  IFlamee 


Baxter,  205,  208,  209,  210,  213,  214, 

221,  224,  381 
Bayard,  377 
Baylee,  272 
Bear,  324 
Beatty,  88,  301 
Beck,  49,   127 

Becket,  378,  381,  383,  437,  438 
Beekets,  442 
Bedford,  165,  169 
Bedkin,  88 
Bell,  200,  201 
Bellings,  390,  391 
de   Belveau,   96 
Benge,  175 

Bennet,  290  i. 

Bennett,  392 
Bernard,  2,  33 
Berwick,  81 
Bevan,  396 

Sevens,  414,  415,  419,  420,  433 
Bichley,  149 

Bickley,  128,  129,  148,  151 
Biglow,   329 
Binder,  417,  440,  441 
Binney,  358 
Blair,  101 
Blame,  290 
Blessinton,   158 
Bond,  48 
Bonneure,  333 
Bourk,  71 
Bowden,  13 
Bowen,  11,  12,  15,  64,  65,  71,  73, 

74,  81,  82,  83,   89,  97,  113 
Bowles,  64 
Boyd,   49,   55,    62,   204,   212,    214, 

221,  224,  241,  242,  243,  329,  423 
Boyle,  15,  23,  32,  277 
Bozard,   377 
Bozorth,  416 
Bradford,  12,  23,  24,  110,  140,  159, 

240,  261,  363,  371,  385,  416,  426 
Bradley,  385 
Bray,  291,  292 
Bready,  377 


Breden,  283 

Brevor,  283 

Bringhurst,  342,  343,  344,  348,  349, 
351,  356,  362,  367,  368,  369,  370, 
371,  373,  379,  380,  382,  424,  430 

Brock,  137,  198,  212,  215,  219,  220, 
289 

Brook,  158,  363 

Brooke,  387,  414 

Brooks,  178,  187,  188,  385,  386, 
388 

Brow,  126 

Brown,  101,  102,  119,  120,  124, 
164,  170,  183,  186,  189,  204,  212, 
224,   325,  356,  359,   361 

Buddy,  214,  249,  329 

Buffington,  209,  210,  213,  218 

Bunn,  146 

Biird,  61 

Burden,  209,  210,  211,  213,  215, 
246,  248,  249,  273,  275,  276,  277, 
282,  284,  286,  287,  290,  293,  302, 
3U6,  307,  309,  310,  314,  320,  321, 
326,  330,  332,  334,  341,  345,  346, 
347,  348,  349,  352,  353,  354,  355, 
356,  358,  359,  361,  368,  371,  378, 
383,  385,  388,  389,  393,  418,  419, 
421,  426,  431,  432,  433,  434,  435, 
439,  440 

Burkhard,  183 

Burland,  118 

Burman,  245 

Burne,  166 

Burns,  360 

Burrough,  373,  386 

Burroughes,  357,  358,  359,  368 

Burroughs,  378,  390,  395,  415,  418 

Burrows,  374 

Bush,  48,  49,  62,  64,  65,  71,  72,  75, 
76,  78,  79,  81,  82,  87,  88,  89,  90, 
92,  97,  135,  136,  137,  138,  142, 
143 

Busman,  395,  396 

Busmas,  413 

Butler,  205,  213 

Byrne,  361 


459 


X730— ifreemasont^  in  Pennsylvania  — 1907 


Cambell,  283 

Campbell,  209,  210,  211,  213,  215, 

219,  284,  316 
Cariol,  37 
Carpenter,  31 
Carr,  354,  360,  361,  362,  369,  378, 

389,  391,  407,  419,  420,  424,  431, 

435,  436,  441 
Carrel,  120 
Carson,  48,  88,  177 
Carter,  287,  290,  291,  293,  310,  313, 

316,  317,  319,  323,  324,  326,  330, 

331,  332,  333,  415 
Cash,  204,  205,  206,  213,  215 
Cassel,  124 
Cattrell,  120 
Chadwick,  175 
Chambers,  48,  343 
Chandler,  63,  65,  73 
Chapman,  164,  308 
Charnley,  385 
Chaudron,  259,  260,  261 
Chedal,  316 
Cheats,  272 

Christie,  46,  101,  124,  359,  361 
Chrystie,  150 
Claiborn,  97 
Clark,  117,  283 
Clarkson,  21,  99,  100,  183 
Clay,  407,  415 
Claypoole,  81,  82,  88,  168 
Clayton,   310,   313,   317,   319,   321, 

323,  324,  326 
Clerk,  17 
Clewley,  331 
Clewly,  331,  333,  337 
Cloer,  209,  210,  213,  215,  221,  237 
Clotworthy,  334 
Cloud,  374 
Cluey,  335 
Cluff,  375 
Cluley,  325,  338,  339,  344,  348,  349, 

352,  353,  355,  357,  359,  430 
Cluly,  344,  388,  390,  393,  415,  418 
Coats,  2,  42,  70,  158,  159 
Coflfee,   186,   188,   189,   195,   212 


Cohen,  62,  63,  65,  71,  72,  74,  75,  81, 

88,  93,  101,  124,  131,  149 
Coit,  385 

Colley,  165,  166,  167,  168,  169 
Collier,  42 
Ceilings,  333 
Collins,    214,    216,    325,    339,    370, 

371,  378 
CoUyer,  308 
Comly,  385 
Conner,  375,  377,  381 
Connor,  22,  23,  26,  37 
Cook,  333 
Coop,  276 
Cooper,  151 
Cope,  171,  172,  175,  215,  219,  231, 

232,  235,  241,  243,  246,  248,  249, 

273,  274,  275,  277,  278,  279,  280, 

283,  289,  292,  342,  355 
Copeland,  20,  46,  168 
Cornwallis,  2 
Corry,  362 

Corson,  283,  310,  311 
Cotterel,  124 
Courter,  21,  22,  43 
Cowan,  186,  212 

Cowperthwait,   209,   211,   213,   215 
Cowperthwaithe,  209,  210 
Cowster,  38 

Cox,  32,  322,  352,  359,  379 
Coxe,  441,  442 
Coyle,  251,  267 
Cozens,  167,  168,  175,  186,  187,  188, 

212,  215,  220 
Craddock,  62 
Craig,   88 
Crapper,  46,  47 
Crawford,  211,  213,  214,  216,  231, 

235,  241,  243 
Crean,  415 
Criddle,  386 
Crishire,  249 
Crocker,  158 
Crocket,  415 

Crossman,  320,  324,  325,  333,  337 
Crozier,  93,  97,  100,  101,  102,  113, 


460 


lln^ei  to  IRamee 


118,  119^  120,  124,  126,  131,  148, 
151,  162,  163,  164,  165,  167,  169 

Cuddle,  385 

Culbertson,  46 

Cullen,  93,  94 

Cummings,  358 

Cummins,  334,  341 

Cutbush,  374,  378,  389,  390,  391, 
413,  422 

Cuttres,  421 

Da  Costa,  49 

Dallet,  163 

Dally,  28,  29,  112 

Daly,  316 

Danacb,  32 

Darragh,  398,  399,  410 

Darvill,  62,  65,  66 

Da  Silva,  340 

Davan,  93 

Davidson,   163,   164,   178,   215 

Davis,  88,  102,  370,  371 

Davison,  178 

Dawes,  420 

Daws,  422 

Day,  385 

Dayton,  108 

Deburr,  416 

Delaney,   102,  117 

Delany,  97,  118,  128 

Delaplaine  42,   64,   65 

Delaustal,  166 

Dennis,  385 

Dentzell,  97,  116 

Deponceau,  26 

Dermott,  134,  135,  142,  158 

Derragh,  49 

De  SUver,  320,  324,  326,  329,  331, 

332,  333,  337,  338,  339,  341,  343, 

344,  345 
Devan,  92,  96 
Dick,  14,  97 
Dickey,  362,  375,  382 
Dickinson,   52 
Dickson,   234 
Diffibaeh,  318 


Dillet,  164,  178 

Divine,  189,  212 

Doherty,  44 

Dolby,  89 

Donnaldson,  379 

Donovan,  128,  150,  151,  381 

Donovon,  150 

D'Orsiere,  102,  113,  117,  118 

Dougherty,  44,  45,  49,  76,  88 

Douglas,  347,  353,  355,  358 

Douglass,  333,  344,  348,  354,  355, 

356,  359,  361,  362,  368,  388,  391, 

418,  420,  422,  423,  431,  433,  438, 

439,  440,  441,  442 
Dove,  333,  335 
Dow,  35,  36 
Dowdall,  97 
Doyle,  364 
Drevis,  321 

Drewis,  377,  380,  382,  422,  424 
Dryall,  81,  93,  97 
Dryatt,  88 

Duey,  246,  273,  274,  329,  336 
Duff,  32,  76 
Duffield,  186,  212 
Duffy,  25,  32 
Dumoriez,  141 
Dunham,  415 
Dunlap,   88 
Dunman,  375 
Duntin,  213 
Dunton,  209 
Duplesses,  416 
Duplessies,  423,  432 
Duplessis,   61,    97,    104,    124.    125, 
140,  149,  162,  165,  166,  168,  169, 
174,  192,  226,  303,  371,  400,  401, 

420,  425 
DupUcee,  124,  125 
Duponceau,    20,   22,   29,   88 
Durell,  114 
Dusautoy,  74 
Duseron,  96 
Dusseron,  47 


Eardly,  356 


461 


X730— ifreemaeonri^  in  ipenns^lvanta  — 1907 


Eddison,  36 

Egelston,  329 

Elhatton,  70 

Elkin,  147 

EUaton,  88 

EUet,  298,  299 

EUiott,  371,  396,  416 

Ellis,  130^  335,  355,  387,  389 

EUy,  329 

Emrich,  270 

Ennis,  308,  326,  334 

Enrijan,  385 

Enticken,  416 

Entricken,  429 

Erdman,  24,  25,  26,  30,  32,  33,  37, 

42,  43,  46,  48,  49,  50,  62,  64,  69, 

70;  71,  72,  73,  74 
Erpy,  49 
Erringer,  429 
Erwin,  34 
Erwine,  49 

Erwing,  201,  202,  203 
Esdale,  275 
Espey,   179 
Espie,  44,  45 
Espy,  179 

Estil,   275,   277,  278,  279 
Etting,  66,  75,  92,  97,  117 
Euston,  236 
Evans,  32,  49,  62,  70,  78,   79,  81, 

83,   88,   89,   90,    117,   130,    147, 

416 
Evens,  76 
Ewart,  147 

Fallon,  12,  14,  23,  25,  26,  96 

Farmer,  83 

Farone,  179,  188,  212 

Farr,  283,  289,  291,  305,  310,  317, 

320,  334 
Farral,  34 

Farrell,  16,  33,  75,  76,  187 
Farren,  433,  434 
Farril,  12,  14,  16,  17,  18,  19 
Fatem,  329 
Faulkner,  239 


Feakins,  146 

Fearon,    349,    354,   358,   417,   423, 

437,  439 
Fenton,  175 

Ferguson,  297,  304,  315,  421 
Ferrall,  21,  22,  23,  24,  27,  30,  34, 

36,   37,   38,   42,  43,   46,   49,   50, 

62,   63,   64,   65,   66,   70,   71,   81, 

112 
Few,  56,  57,  59,  117,  137,  168 
Fisher,  14,  21,  25,  26,  27,  29,  30, 

33,   34,   37,   38,  42,.  49,   50,   84, 

85,   86,   87,   167,   169,  215,   219, 

240,  272 
Fitzgerrald,  124 
Flanagan,  166 
Fletcher,  275,  276,  344,  348,  349, 

350,  353,  356,  357,  368,  413,  415 
Fling,  377 
Floyd,  319 
Ford,  290 
Foster,  379 
Fox,   81,   82,   88,   89,   90,   93,   132, 

157,  219,  303,  304 
Francis,   100,   278,   288,   295,   296, 

297 
Frank,  316 

Frankford,  38,  41,  47,  65,  66 
Franklin,    55,    96,    113,    115,    135, 

167,  276,  343,  434 
Franks,  97 
Frazer,  415 
Freed,  157 
Freese,  97 
Frietz,  379 
Fritz,  434 
Fry,  391,  395 
Fullen,   375 
Fulton,  217 

Gallaher,  362 

Gamble,   177,   179,   186,    187,    188, 

212,  215,  415 
Gardette,  162 
Gartley,  241,  242 
Garvey,  280 


462 


llnOex  to  IRames 


Gassaway,  26 

Gatier,  309,  317 

Gatty,  225,  231,  235,  241,  244,  290 

Gay,  177 

Geary,  27,  28,  37 

Geise,  66 

Geisse  88 

Geize,  42 

Genet,  181 

Ghio,  375,  376 

Ghisling,  91 

Ghysling,  92 

Giese,  79,  83,  94,  166 

Gifford,  350,  352 

Gilbert,   442 

GUchrist,  28 

Ginocliio,  377 

Gionovoly,  128 

Girard,  183,  358 

Gisling,  93 

Goffegin,  118 

Goodman,  158 

Gostelawe,  88 

Gostelowe,  23,  102,  131 

Gould,  135,  424 

Graeff,  231 

Graff,  235,  241,  243,  246,  276,  310, 

322,  332,  333,  335,  347,  350,  362 
Graham,  319 

de  la  Grange,  258,  264,  267 
Grant,  116,  314,  317,  320,  324,  326, 

331,  332,  333,  337,  338,  341,  344, 

347 
Graves,  335 
Gravilles,   375 
Grayham,  329 
Grayson,  12,  13,  17,  21,  22 
Green,  200,  212^  215,   219 
Gregory,  110 
Griffin,  179 

Griffith,  186,  192,  297,  400,  402 
Griffiths,  251 
Gronovoly,  128 

Gui?e,  30,  31,  41,  78,  162,  214,  219 
Guize,  33,  37 
GysKn,  15,   17,   19 


Hadingran,   72,  73 

Haffnagle,  44 

Haines,  97,   127 

Haley,  117,  161 

Hall,  5,  7,  70,  75,  80,  282,  314, 
321,  347 

Hamell,  127 

Hamilton,  25,  28,  30,  31,  46,  47, 
61,  62,  76,  81,  89,  97,  112,  117, 
118,  131,  141,  148,  150,  306,  316, 
360,  361,  369,  374,  378,  380,  386, 
388,  391,  415,  435,  437 

Hamniel,  117 

Hammet,  116 

Hammill,   190,  212,  215,   219,  220 

Hamton,  290 

Hancong,  163,  164,  215,  220 

Hand,  33 

Hanlon,  179 

Hansfold,  118 

Hardy,  170 

Harman,  243,  284,  285,  286,  422 

Harmon,  420 

Harper,  146,  438 

Harrison,  199,  213,  215,  219 

Hartley,  31,  32,  33,  40,  49,  62,  63, 
377 

Hartly,  30 

Hartman,  346,  347,  417,  421    . 

Hartung,  50 

Harwood,  81 

Hassells,  273,  290,  292 

Hassels,  246,  249 

Hauteval,  354 

Hawke,  43 

Hayden,  327 

Hayes,  358 

Healey,  236,  237 

Heanny,  415 

Heartley,  375 

Heister,  368 

Helmbold,  382,  416 

Helmuth,  270 

Henderson,  25,  64,  65,  88 

Henessy,  341 

Hennessy,  290,  333,  371,  374 


46c 


X730— ifreemasonr^  in  Pennsylvania  — X907 


Hennesy,  416 

Hepler,  231,  232,  241 

Hewlings,  164 

Hicks,  186,  187,  212 

Hillegas,  100 

Hilton,   110 

Hiss,  387 

Hockaday,  146 

Hoffman,  330 

Hoffnagle,  44 

Hoffner,  91 

Holbrook,  433,  434 

Holford,  158 

Hollingshead;  108 

Hollins,  379 

Holloway,  416 

Holt,  141 

Hoobley,  101 

Hoopes,  12,  14 

Hoops,  375 

Hoover,  305,  329 

Hopes,  25,  26,  27,  30,  33,  34,  36,  37, 
38,  41,  42,  43,  46,  112 

Hopkins,  384,  385 

Hopson,  92 

House,  93,  97,  102 

Houston,  41,  42,  78,  89 

Howard,  91,  416,  418 

Howel,   283 

Howell,  6,  8,  20,  31,  32,  37,  42,  54, 
66,  69,  88,  112,  158,  159,  160 

Hoy,   240 

Hubbard,  198,  212,  231,  232 

Hubly,  418 

Huff,   164 

Huffnagle,   45 

Huggins,  325 

Hughes,  25 

Humphres,  72,  73 

Humphrey,   32,   102 

Humphreys,  56,  57,  74,  75,  76,  78, 
79,  81,  82,  83,  88,  89,  90,  91,  92, 
93,  97,  99,  100,  101,  117,  118, 
124,  125,  126,  127,  128,  129,  131, 
134,  148,  149,  150,  151,  163, 
164,  165,  169,  214,  219,  220 


Hunt,  92,  147,  170,  171,  172,  180, 
199,  219,  220,  221,  271,  274,  375 
Hunter,   33,   108 

Huston,  77,  200,  201,  204,  211,  212 
Hutchison,  88 

Inginz,  28 

Ireland,  415 

Irvin,   26,   36,   195,   199,   241,   360 

Irvine,   25,   26,   37 

Irving,    190,    195,    200,    201,    203, 

211,  212,  213,  214,  221,  241,  281, 

287,  360,  362 
Irwin,  40,  88,  112,  118,  205,  224, 

231,  235,  243,  357,  369,  373,  374, 

375 
Irwine,  14,  16,  41,  42 
Isaac,  112 
Israel,  60,  183,  244,  251,  268,  270, 

292,  298,  303,  315,  318,  320,  358, 

394 

Jackson,  62,  118,  267,  302,  437 

Janner,  277 

Jarvis,  25,  26,  62,  75,  81,  88,  198, 

213,  215,   219 
Jenkins,  32,  37 
Jennings,  6,  42,  49,  81 

Jervis,  110,  159,  167,  169,  171,  172, 

180,  188,  198 
Johnson,  31,  316,  385 
Johnston,  32,  88,  147 
Jones,  12,  75,  81,  82,  88,  91,  92,  93, 

94,  110,  126,  204,  213,  381 
Jordan,  22,  23,  204,  208,  209,  213, 

214,  219,  235,  247 
Josiah,  51 
Jourdan,  333 
Jourdon,  432 
Jowis,  32 

Jugier,  31 

Justice,    186,   209,    210,   211,    212, 
213,  215,  236,  237,  242,  289 


Kackler,  118 


464 


llnt)ei  to  iRames 


Kane,  305,  310,  313,  829,  334,  338,  Lake,  375,  376 

339  Lamarquissi,  89 

Kann,  318  Lamb,  140,  234 

Kay,  385  Lambert,  379 

Kean,  108,  204,  205,  211,  212,  213  Lancaster,  310,  338,  339,  342 

214,  218,  317,  382  Landerger,  117 

Keeler,  30,  31,  32,  36,  37,  70,  81,  Lane,  108 

88,  112  Laney,  179,  186,  212,  215,  220 

Kees,  389  Lang,  78 

Keiseh,  415  Langenberg,  97,   101 

Kelly,  186,  188,  212,  368,  379,  435  Langenbergher,  97 

Kendell,  37  Latrobe,  399 

Kene,  242  Lawler,   198,   213 

Kennedy,  170,  178  Lawless,  236,  237 

Kenny,  322,  342  Lawrence,  170,  179,  187 

Kensell,  379  Lawson,  64,  65,  81,  127 

Ker,  423  Lea,  186 

Kerlin,  23  Leacock,  4,  5 

Kerr,  438  Leamey,  43 

Kessler,   209,   210,   212,   213,   223,  Learning,  2,  71,  88 

224,  231,  235,  246,  248  Leamy,  32,  46,  70,  72,  74,  75,  76, 
Keyser,  218,  245,  314  78,  79,  81,  82,  83,  89,  93,  100, 

Khun,  25  101 

Kidd,  147,  157  Lecassoy,  76 

Kidde,  58  Lecker,  97 

King,  24,  26,  88,  100,  178,  187  Lecossoy,  71 

Kinnan,  4,  5  Ledant,  211,  213 

Kinsley,   177  Ledourt,  214 

Kirkpatrick  13,  14,  21  Lee,  49,  109,  154,  256 

Kitts,   170,  171,  180,  215,   219  Lees,  198,  199,  200,  211,  213,  215, 
Knapp,  279  221,  224 

Knight,   374,   420,   423,   431,   434,  Leese,  319,  356 

439  Lefevre,  375 

Knowles,  312,   329,   377,   380,   382  Lemaigre,  183 

Knox,  101,  119  Lennon,  69,  71 

Koch,  48,  49,  65,  89,  113  Lennox,  88 

Krichbaum,  378,  383,  384  Leonard,  112 

Kuhn,  321,  391,  392,  418,  420,  431,  Lese,  419 

433  Leslie,  145,,  146,  147 

Kunckell,  83,  84,  85,  86,  88,  117  Leuffler,  97 

Kunckle,  97  Levis,  298 

Kunkel,  92,  116,  117  Levy,  93,  97 

Kunkie,  381  Lewis,  146,  289,  290,  296,  438 

Lafayette,  52,  53  Lexe,  290 

Linch,  329 

Lafitte,  417  xU  Lindsey,  325 
30                                                465 


1730— ifreemasonr^  in  ipenne^lvania— 1907 


Lippincott,  429,  438 

Littleboy,  379,  387,  415 

Littlewood,  283,  314 

Livingston,  385 

Lockart,  163 

Lockman,  337,  339 

de  Longehamps,  49,  69,  70,  102 

Longinatto,  376 

Lorain,  416 

Lomier,  166 

Lot,  375 

Love,  216 

Low,  349 

Lowe,  348 

Lowther,  385 

Luke,  97 

Lumden,  177 

Lumsden,  212 

Luzerne,  68 

Lynch,  272 

Lyons,  280 

MeAlpin,  415 

McArty,   271 

McBride,  127,  187 

McCabe,  238 

MeCann,  178 

McCarthy,  205,  211,  212,  213, 

222,  225,  231,  235,  241 
McCartney,  33,  37 
McCarty,  178,  195,  205 
McClatchie,  380 
McClellan,  186 
McClemons,  318 
McCloud,  370 
McColin,  415 
McCormick,  85 
McCracken,  55 
McCree,  137,  147,  177,  189 
McCreed,  157 
McCullam,  49,  62 
McCuUoch,  25,  41 
McCullough,  21,  186,  200,  212, 
McCune,  339 
McCurdy,  333 
McDonach,  243 


214, 


333 


McDonah,  329 

McDugan,  187 

McElhatton,  32,  33,  48,  76,  78,  90 

McElroy,  187 

McElwee,  192,  264,   267 

McFadden,  218 

McFarland,  283 

McFarson,  65 

McFee,   198,  205,  213,  215,  320 

McGuhan,  22 

McGuirck,  211,  214 

McGuire,  228,  337,  338,  339,  340, 

341,  343,  439,  442 
McGuirk,  213,   218,   221 
Mclsaae,  164 
McKane,  340 
McKaraker,  377 
McKarraker,  177 
McKeage,  424,  425,  435,  442 
McKenzie,  385 
McKinnie,  177,  179 
McKinny,  332 
McLain,  14 
McLane,  109,  110 
McLaughlin,    204,    205,    213,    215, 

219,    310 
McLean,  32,  33,  46,  88,  119,  120, 

124,  125 
McManamy,   213,   214,   219,   220 
McManemy,    205,    208,    209 
McNeer,   211,   213 
McNeill,    205,   208,    213 
McPherson,  18,  19 
McEeynolds,    355 
Macauly,    158 
MacGuffin,   11,   12,   13,   15 
MacLain,   15  V 

MacPherson,  13 
Magaw,  67,  69,  70,  113,  191,  193, 

196,   197,   268,   269,  270 
MaGee,    347 
Maguire,  320,  321,  326,  329,   338, 

349,   361 
Maher,  341 
MaUlard,  88,  90,  94 
Malahan,  25 


466 


•fln^ex  to  IRames 


Malat,  376 

Maley,  415 

Manning,  200,  213,  415 

Mansfield,  189,  205,  210,  213,  221, 

224,   225,   231,  235,  241 
Maquire,  288,  313,  331 
Mariner,    339 
Marks,    317 
Marley,   280,   281 
Marriner,   339 

Marshall,    33,    97,    128,    246,    249, 
273,  274,  277,  281,  282,  284,  286, 
287,  290,  291,  307,  310,  313,  314, 
320,    332,   334,   382 
Martin,  42,  62,  76,  77,  97,  116,  131, 
165,  168,  189,  190,  195,  212,  375, 
379,   380,   383,   385,   388,    393 
Mason,  24,  97,  147,  148,  149,  164, 
169,  305,  306,  321,  334,  335,  361, 
362 
Mathews,  24,  38,  46,  228,  235,  332 
Matlack,   34,   36,   37,   41,   42,   432 
Matlock,  41 
Matthews,  20,  187 
Maxton,    215,    221 
Maxwell,    108 
Maybray,  27,  28 
Mayney,  415 

Meguire,   316,   319,  332,  333,  343, 

347,  348,  349,  350,  352,  355,  359, 

368,  386,  388,  414,  422,  423,  440 

Mein,    395 

Melbeck,   83,   84,   85,   86,   97,   108, 

118 
Melcher,  32,  33,  112 
Melchior,  33,  42 
Melchor,  42 
Melnor,  74 
Mequire,   439 
Mesey,  272 
Metzger,  101 
Metziers,   97 
Meuse,  43,  44 
Mewse,   40,    41,    165 
Michaels,  391,  396 
Mifflin    250 


Milbeck,   94,   101   117 

Miller,  97,  162,  163,  189,  211,  213, 

214,  272 
Milner,  34,  37 

Milnor,  33,  34,  36,  38,  42,  46,  49, 
50,  62,  64,  69,  70,  71,  72,  75,  76, 
77,   78,   88,   101,   130,   147,   167, 

215,  219,  225,  249,  251,  277,  294, 
295,  299,  315,  363,  371,  372,  374, 
393,  399,  400,  401,  407,  416,  425, 
433 

Mitchell,   209,  210,  213,  215,  219, 

223,  224 
Moffit,  12,  14,  16 
Molohan,  26 
Monagany,  325 
Monges,  304 
Moody,   168 
Mooney,   310 
Moore,  11,  17,  19,  24,  27,  129,  148, 

283,  329,  335 
Moran,   187 
Morgan,   162,   200 
Morris,  78,  94,  177,  179,  188,  212 
Morrison,  218,  350,  352,  359,  361 
Morrow,    205,    211,    213 
Morthwaite,   195,   212 
Morton,  189,  190,  212,  385 
Morzeau,    96 
Moser,  288,  320 
Moss,  358 
Mosser,  329 
Mower,  433,  434 
Mucklehatton,  23 
MuUowney,    168 
Murphy,   209,   210,  211,   213,   215, 

228 
Murray,   228,   298 
Murrow,  235,  238 
Murtaugh,  314 
Musgrave,  37 
Musgrove,   36 
Myers,  186,  188,  189,  212 


Nathan,  49,  78 
Neil,  314 


467 


X730— Jfreemasonri^  in  ipenns^^lvanta  — 1907 


Neild,  273,  274,  276,  280,  314,  316 

Neildson,  419 

Neilson,  380,  381,  420,  441 

Nelson,  264,  267,  376,  377,  379 

Neury,  332 

Newcomb,  353 

Newry,  332 

Newton,  13 

Neyl,   313 

Nice,  435,  438,  441,  442 

Nichols,   22 

Nickerson,   22,    23 

Niel,  375 

Nield,    249,    376,    377 

Nieldson,  376,  379 

Nielson,  431 

Nilson,   251,   264,  267 

Nisbet,  405,  407 

Nones,  48,  49,  62,  71,  72,   75,   76, 

77,  78,  79,  81,  82,  87,  88,  91,  92, 

93,    96,    101,    117 
Novick,  339 
Nowick,   339 
Nuttle,  75,  77 
Nuvark,   117 

O 'Brian,  313,  317,   320,   323,   324, 

326,  331,  333 
O'Brien,   209,  210,   213,   316,  329, 

330,  333,  337,  340,  341,  346,  349, 

357,  359,  368,  378,  379,  393,  421, 

422,  440 
O'Connor,  434 
Ogden,  108 
Ogilvie,  109 
O 'Banning,  164 
O'Hara,  179,  186,  189,  212 
Oldham,  211,  213 
Olmstead,  433 
Olmsted,  421 
O'Neill,  416 
Ord,  16,  17,  20,  26,  28,  33,  46,  134, 

136,   138,   166 
Ormrod,  260,  261,  269 
Orr,  321 
Osborne.    158 


Ostheime,  292 

Ostheine,    246,    277 

Oswald,  11,  28,  53,  125,  140,  141, 

142,   143,   197 
Otto,  63,  65,  312,  322 
Owen,   341,   342 

Pancoast,   187 

Park,    125,    128,    129 

Parke,  53 

Parker,  48,  382 

Parr,    25 

Parrish,    48 

Passmore,  400,  402 

Patterson,  91,  210,  213,  221,  379, 
424,  432 

Pattison,    175,    209 

Patton,  88,  109,  189,  190,  212,  215, 
228,  243,  244,  251,  274,  276,  281 

Paxson,  431 

Paxton,  417 

Peale,  55,  294,  295 

Pearson,  164,  417,  435,  43? 

Peck,    108 

Peek,   273 

Peircey,  32,  33 

Peircy,    30,    31 

Pemberton,  215,  218 

Pendleton,    108 

Penn,    100 

Pennington,  33,  34,  36,  37,  40,  41, 
46,  49,  63,  64,  70,  71,  72,  73,  74, 
75,  76,  77,  78,  79,  81,  82,  84,  86, 
87,  88,  89,  90,  93,  97,  101,  120, 
125,  149 

Peplow,  331,  334 

Perateau,  361 

Perroteau,  415 

Perry,  132 

Phelps,  313 

Philips,  316,  381,  383 

Phillips,  231,  235,  237,  241,  243, 
244,  245,  246,  248,  249,  264,  268, 
271,  272,  274,  275,  276,  277,  282, 
287,  290,  291,  293,  306,  309,  310, 
312,  314,  319,  320,  321,  323,  324, 


468 


UnDex  to  IRames 


329,  330,  332,  333,  335,  337,  339, 
341,  344,  345,  346,  348,  349,  352, 
353,  354,  355,  357,  358,  359,  371, 
385,  388,  389,  392,  393,  394,  397, 
413,  430 

Piatt,   108 

Pickering,   102 

Pierce,  195,  213,  215,   219 

Piersol,   65 

Pilmore,  113,  114 

Pinchion,  241,  242 

Pitcher,  324 

Pitchetti,  376 

Poalk,  400,  401,  430 

Polk,  161 

Polonois,  75,  76 

Poor,  191,  192 

Poulson,  207 

Powel,  334 

Powers,  75 

Prevost,    97 

Price,  170 

Priestly,  298 

Proctor,  6,  11,  12,  14,  15,  21,  23, 
25,  28,  34,  38,  43,  44,  45,  46,  48, 
49,  51,  62,  63,  75,  88,  97,  102, 
108,  117,  118,  124,  125,  126,  129, 
130,  131,  153,  154,  155,  157,  178, 
191,  192,  226,  255,  328 

Pugh,   62,   65 

PuUen,  241,  243,  249,  273,  274,  275, 
276,  277,  282,  284,  286,  287,  289, 
290,  291,  293,  297,  306,  309,  310, 
313,  314,  315,  316,  317,  319,  320, 
321,  323,  325,  326,  327,  329,  330, 
331,  332,  333,  335,  336,  337,  338, 
339,  341,  343,  344,  347,  430 

Purcell,  49,  62,  81,  87 

Purden,  416 

Quin,  76,  77,  113,  309,  313,  424 
Quinn,  308 

Eain,  273,  277,  312 
Eainer,  317 
Eamsey,  439 


Kandal,  416 

Rawlings,  47 

Rayner,   291,  .309,   317,   319,   330, 

333,  335,  338,  340,  341,  343 
Raynor,   293,   310,   313,   324,   325, 

331,   348 
Eeam,  211 
Eebosis,   375 
Eebous,  376 

Eediough,  273,  274,  275 
Eedman,  88 
Eeed,    154 
Eeeves,    48 
Eeich,   344 
Eeid,  46 

Eeiley,  22,  70,  213,  326 
Eeilly,  218,  219,  220,  392 
Eeily,   70,  71,  88 
Eeinagle,  303,  304 
Eeisch,    342,    348,    349,    351,    354, 

355,  362,  365,  367,  368,  369,  370, 

371,    373,    385 
Eenshaw,   392 
Eeynolds,  325,  356 
Ehea,  209,  210,  213 
Eheinwald,   40 
Eheinwalt,  42 
Ehoads,  72,  74,  81,  86,  87 
Eice,  42,  62,  65,  66,   71,  88,  131, 

147,  148,  149,  163,  165,  169,  180, 

215,  219 
Eichards,  298,  299,  397,  406,  411, 

413,  416 
Eichardson,  117,  415 
Eiley,  175,  177,  180,  190,  199,  200, 

201,  204,  212,  334,  336 
Eitchie,  49 
Eittenhouse,  85 
Eitter,  183 
Eoberdeau,  20 
Eoberts,  25,  26,  29,  33,  34,  36,  37, 

38,   41,   42,  45,   46,   49,   75,   88, 

101,  415 
Eobeson,   199,  200,   201,  203,  212, 

221 
Eobinson,  175,  190,  191,  195,  205, 


469 


1730— jfreemasonr^  in  penne^lvanta  — 1907 


208,  209,  210,  211,  212,  213,  215, 
219,  221,  224,  231,  235,  241,  243, 
246,  273,  285,  286,  329,  330,  332, 
336,  343,  344,  383 

Koelie,  91,  92,  113 

Eodgers,  62 

Rodney,    109 

Sogers,  35,  212,  367,  385,  408,  410 

Eohn,  415 

Rose,    292 

Eossel,  375 

Rourke,  205,  206,  209,  213 

RufP,  368,  378,  391,  418,  420,  431, 
434,  435,  437,  438,  440,  441, 
442 

Ruggles,   218 

Rush,   185,   369,   374 

Russel,  244,  273 

Rutherford,  6,  12,  25,  27,  28,  30, 
33,  37,  41,  42,  44,  46,  47,  49,  57, 
76,  78,  81,  87,  88,  97,  101,  102, 
113,  116,  117,  118,  119,  124,  126, 
127,  130,  148,  150,  151,  158,  159, 
161,  162,  163,  164,  165,  167,  170 

Rutter,  387 

Ryan,   97 

Sachse,  132,  181 

Sadler,  225 

St.  Clair,  99 

Salem,   333 

SaUsberry,  148 

Salisbury,  71,  101,  150 

Salsbery,  64,  65,  70,  73,  74,  75,  88, 

101 
Salsbury,  76,  79,  160,  161,  162,  163, 

165,   214,   219 
Saltenstal,  416 
Santford,  108 
Saurman,  385 
Sausman,  374,  375 
Savadge,  110 
Savage,  13,  26,  62,  88 
Sayres,  210,  211,  213,  214 
Schaffer,  42 
Schivelay,  49 


Schneider,  247,  271,  277,  291,  293, 
310,  317,  331,  333,  337,  344,  348, 
354,  358,  378,  391,  419,  420,  431 

Schweitzer,  211 

Scot,    4 

Scott,   164 

Scull,   376 

Search,  171,   172,  177,  215,  219 

Sellers,  5,  6,  7,  42,  70,  75,  78,  SO, 
170 

Sergers   101 

Service,  46,  47,  165,  175,  180,  201, 
202,  203,  204,  205,  215 

Sewell,  26 

Shallus,    88 

Shaw,  163,  164,  201,  212,  368,  377, 
378,  385,  416 

Sheetz,   267 

Shelmerdine,  333,  337,  358,  378, 
391,  418,  419,  420,  424,  431,  434, 
435,  436,  438,  439 

Shermandine,    349 

Shermardine,  338,  362,  389,  415 

Shermerdine,   335 

Shewell,  22,  23,  26,  32,  88 

Shillingford,   331,   335,   344 

Shippen,  18,  100 

Shirtlife,  30,  37,  81,  88,  117 

Shober,  17,  32,  33,  37,  42,  49,  71 

Shoemaker,  30,  31,  36,  38,  41,  42 

Shotwell,  27,  38 

Shrupp,  349 

Shutwell,  12,  22 

Simmons,  33,  38 

Simms,   179 

Simon,  385,  388,  421 

Simpson,  317,  415 

Singleton,    75 

Skinner,  26,  27,  42,  276 

Smallman,  385,  386 

Smith,  3,  6,  7,  8,  9,  11,  16,  17,  20, 
23,  25,  26,  27,  43,  44,  56,  57,  59, 
60,  61,  76,  87,  89,  90,  95,  97,  100, 
110,  120,  128,  132,  134,  136,  137, 
138,  143,  147,  149,  160,  162,  163, 
164,  165,  166,  167,  168,  170,  173, 


470 


1ln^eI  to  IRamee 


174,  175,  179,  186,  198,  206,  213, 
214,  217,  226,  234,  240,  243,  244, 
251,  252,  277,  280,  294,  302,  304, 
305,  321,  325,  326,  333,  363,  387, 
389,  415 

Snyder,  281,  364,  379,  435 

Snider,   283 

Solomon,  73,  74,  75 

Somer,  441 

Somers,  438,  439 

Sommer,  440;,  442 

Sommers,  440 

South,   350,   352 

Speer,   12,   17,   19 

Spinacuta,  214,  216,  217,  338,  339 

Sprague,    171 

Springer,  264,  267 

Stafford,  32,  76,  308,  329 

Stanley,  329,  358,  359,  361,  368 

Starling,   120,   126 

Starman,  65,  69,  70,  71,  73,  75,  81, 
83,  97,  113,  127 

Staugliton,   367 

Steade,   92 

Steel,  102,  195,  198,  200,  210,  211, 
213 

Steinman,  378,  380,  422,  434 

Stelle,  47,  84 

Sterling,  164 

Steuben,  20 

Stevens,  77,  369 

Steward,  385 

Stienman,   390 

Stiles,  421 

Stinger,  415 

Stoane,    325 

Stone,  329 

Stoneman,  434 

Stones,   327 

Street,    167 

Stretch,   375 

Strickland,   398,  400 

Stuart,   375 

Stubin,  128 

Summere,   183 

Summons,    28 


Sutter,  88,  165,  215 

Sweitzer,   209,  210,   213,   215,   221 

Swift,  20,  100 

Sykes,  415 

Tackholm,   306 

Talley,  155 

Tallman,    108 

Tapp,  70,  71,  73 

Tatem,  283,  290,  291,  293,  302,  307, 

,310,  316,  317,  421 
Tatnall,   35 
Taylor,  76,  78,  167,  170,  199,  200, 

213,  322,  405,  406 
Tedball,  316 
Teller,  119 
Telles,    91 
Temple,  49 

Thomas,   325,   345,   424,   431,   432 
Thompson,   31,   97,   131,   148,   165, 

178,   187,   329,  381,   382 
Thomson,    149 
Thomston,  164 
Tice,  375 
Tidball,   329 
Tilton,    46,    167 
Timmons,  42 
Tinsley,  11,  17 
Tobey,  125 
Tobin,  126 
Todd,  245,  284 
Topham,   360,   361 
Towel,   343,   345,   347 
Towell,  331 
Towers,  434,  435 
Triple,   245 
Trotman,  127,  128 
Truehole,  415 
Turner,  343,  345,  424 
Twining,  34,  36,  37 
Tybout,    371,   400,   401,   402,   416, 
425,  438 

Uhle,  334 
Usher,  315,   329 
Uz,    374 


471 


1730— ffreema0onri?  in  ipenns^lvanta  — X907 


Van  Anglon,  108 
Vanbrust,  338 
Vance,   211,   213,  214 
VancTerslice,  245,  380,  382 
Van  Herr,  216 
Van  Keer,  282 
Vannest,  298 
Vannost,   88,  95 
Vanost,  42,  96 
Vansleck,  97 

Vantelburg,   215  * 

Vantenbergh,    210 
Vantenburgh,  213,  214 
Vantilburg,  218 

Van  Vleck,  81,  84,  85,  88,  89,  90 
Vassault,  355,  356 
Vernon,  37 
VoigM,  267,  381 
Von    Morn,    129 

Von  Worn,  48,  49,  62,  64,  69,  72, 
74,   75,   100 

Wadman,  64,  66,  70,  71,  74,  76,  78, 
87,  88,  89,  101,  102,  117,  118, 
120,  127,  130,  131,  147,  148,  149, 
150,  151,  157,  160,  161,  162,  163, 
169,  172,  186,  199,  201,  202,  203, 
205,  211,  212,  216,  221,  224,  229, 
232,  241 

Wager,  415 

Walker,  73,  74,  126,  276,  319,  362 

Wallington,  349,  350,  352 

Wain,  404 

Walters,   381,   382 

Wand;  421 

Ward,  284 

Warner,  345,  368,  378,  379,  380, 
390,  391,  415,  422 

Warr,  356 

Warren,  281,  315 

Washington,  3,  4,  9,  52,  55,  96,  109, 
153,  172,  173,  175,  181,  190,  225, 
226,  227,  252,  253,  255,  258,  260, 
261,  262,  263,  264,  265,  266,  269, 
278,  328,  412 

Watkins,  375,  415 


Watson,  272 

Watt,  127 

Way,  20,  49,  89 

Wayman,  27,  28 

Wayne,   153 

Weacock,   329 

Weaver,   298,   375,   376,   377,   379, 

381 
Webster,  432,  439 
Weeks,  290,  329 
Weidman,  126 
Weizaecker,    270 
Welford,  325,  333 
Wence,  88 
Wescott,   81,   84,   88,   90,   93,   116, 

119,  120,  126,  147,  148,  149,  150, 

151 
West,  167 

Westcott,  101,  102,  117 
Westheim,  391,   395 
Westphall,  438 
Weyman,  28,  30,  32,  33,  37,   112, 

435,  438 
Wharton,  60,  358 
Wheelan,   201,   225,   235,  241,   243 
Wheelen,  244 
Wheeler,  231 
White,  31,  32,  42,  53,  54,  62,  80, 

110,   137,   140,  179,  256 
Whitehead,  2,  24,   28,  32,  46,   70, 

116,  117,  164,  189,  190,  212 
Wiendjard,  342 
Wigtilbury,  284 
Wigtinbury,   283,   289 
Wilbank,  361 
Wiley,  23 
Wilford,  415 
Wilkins,   179,   379 
Wilkinson,  422 
Will,  102,  164 
Willbauk,  356 
Williams,    59,    97,    157,    164,    165, 

166,  177,  225,  379,  385,  391 
Willis,   58 
Willson,  118 
Wilson,  117,  118,  165 


472 


UnDei  to  IRames 


Wiltbank,   360 

Wimar,    314 

Winchester,  298 

Winmer,  355 

Winner,  380,  390,  419,  422,  424 

Winners,  433 

Winter,  321,  356 

Wintheval,  385,  434 

Winthevel,  378,  383 

Wintherval,  422 

Wistar,  35,  45,  88,  112,  204,  205, 
206,   208,   209,   212,   213,   248 

Wister,  12,  16,  17,  25,  26,  27,  29, 
32,  33,  34,  35,  36,  37,  38,  40,  41, 
42,  44,  46,  48,  204,  320,  324,  356 

Withy  81,  82 

Woch,  387 

Wolbert,  430 


Wood,  88,  160,  303,  304,  418 

Woodhouse,  6,  10 

Woods,  418 

Woodsides,  369 

Wool,   28 

Wright,   245 

Wyley,   46 

Wylie,   88 

Wymar,  314 

Wythe,  416 

Yard,   163,   164,   212,   215 

Yelriek,    374 

Yerkes,  211,  213 

Young,  14,  15,  16,  22,  23,  25,  26, 
27,  28,  29,  30,  31,  32,  33,  34,  41, 
42,  46,  63,  77,  96,  108,  112,  154, 
155,  156,  157,  245 


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University  of  California 

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